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MRSA Study

The Washington Fire Chiefs are partnering with the University of Washington (UW) Department of Environmental and Occupational Health and UW Field Research and Consultation Group in Seattle to better understand the presence and distribution of MRSA in fire stations and to help reduce risk factors. They will provide a number of MRSA environmental sampling kits to fire stations across the state as part of the UW Environmental Sampling for MRSA in Fire Stations Project.

Find a "MRSA Study Request Participation Letter" as well as a variety of resources in the MRSA Resource Library. In addition to the resource library, further study information can be found here:

1. Robert Brown, Prevalence of MRSA in Ambulances in Southern Maine, http://informahealthcare.com/doi/pdf/10.3109/10903120903564480.

2. Marilyn Roberts, Isolation and Characterization of MRSA from Fire Stations in Two Northwest Fire Districts, http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21324550.

3. Jonathon Sexton and K. Reynolds, Exposure of Emergency Medical Responders to MRSA, http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=Sexton%20and%20MRSA%20and%20fire%20stations.