Meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA)

Agencies

Centers for Disease Prevention and Control (CDC)

• Infection Control Guidance: Preventing Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in Healthcare Facilities (2025)

European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC)

• Systematic literature analysis and review of targeted preventive measures to limit healthcare-associated infections by meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (Eurosurveillance, 2014)

Professional societies

Asia-Pacific Society of Infection Control (APSIC)

• A handbook of Infection Control for the Asian Healthcare Work (2022)

Healthcare Infection Society (HIS) and Infection Prevention Society

• Joint Healthcare Infection Society (HIS) and Infection Prevention Society (IPS) guidelines for the prevention and control of meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in healthcare facilities (2021)

Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA)

• Clinical Practice Guidelines by the Infectious Diseases Society of America for the Treatment of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Infections in Adults and Children (2011)

Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA) / Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) / Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC)

• SHEA/IDSA/APIC Practice Recommendation: Strategies to prevent methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus transmission and infection in acute-care hospitals: 2022 Update

EU/EEA countries

Austria

• Hygienerichtlinien

Belgium

• MDRO (2022)

Croatia

• Smjernice za prevenciju, kontrolu I lije^enje infekcija koje uzrokuje meticilin-rezistentni Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) (2010)

Cyprus

• ΠΡΟΛΗΨΗ ΚΑΙ ΕΛΕΓΧΟΣ ΤΟΥ ΑΝΘΕΚΤΙΚΟΥ ΣΤΗ ΜΕΘΙΚΙΛΛΙΝΗ ΧΡΥΣΙΖΟΝΤΑ ΣΤΑΦΥΛΟΚΟΚΚΟΥ (MRSA - Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus) (2025)

Czechia

• MRSA Czechia

Denmark

• Infektionshygiejniske retningslinjer for MRSA (2023)
• Key factors in screening for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA): a narrative synthesis of current evidence (2025)
• Guidance on Preventing the Spread of MRSA (2016)
  English: Guidance on Preventing the Spread of MRSA
  Danish: Vejledning om forebyggelse af spredning af MRSA

Finland

• National guidelines on controlling multidrug-resistant bacteria (National Institute for Health and Welfare 2014) (Institute for Health and Wellbeing, 2020) 
  Ohje moniresistenttien mikrobien Tartunnantorjunnasta (Terveyden ja hyvinvoinnin laitos, 2020)
  
  (This document includes guidance for infection prevention and control of MRSA)

France

• Préventionde la transmission croisée : précautions complémentaires contact (2009)
  
  (This document includes guidance targeting MRSA)

Germany

• Prävention und Kontrolle von MRSA (2014)
• Empfehlungen zur Prävention und Kontrolle von Methicillinresistenten Staphylococcus aureus-Stämmen (MRSA) in medizinischen und pflegerischen Einrichtungen (2014)

Iceland

• Skimun, smitrakning og sýkingavarnir vegna sýklalyfjaónæmra baktería í heilbrigðisþjónustu (2019)

Ireland

• Prevention and Control Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). National Clinical Guideline No. 2 (Health Protection Surveillance Centre, 2013)
  and
  Summary: Prevention and control Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). National Clinical Guideline No. 2 (Health Protection Surveillance Centre, 2013)

Norway

• MRSA-veilederen (2009)
• Generelt om MRSA (2024)
• Stafylokokkinfeksjoner (inkl. MRSA-infeksjoner) – håndbok for helsepersonell (2023)
• Meticillinresistente gule stafylokokker (MRSA) (2025)

Poland

• Protokół postępowania z pacjentem, u którego stwierdzono bakteriemię o etiologii Staphylococcus aureus (2018)

Portugal

• Norma nº 004/2013 atualizada a 27/07/2022 Vigilância Epidemiológica das Resistências aos Antimicrobianos (2022)

Slovakia

• Guidance for the diagnosis, prevention and control of infections by bacteria with clinically and epidemiologically important resistance mechanisms. (Slovakian Republic Ministry of Health, 2014)
  OU MZ SR pre diagnostiku a protiepidemické opatrenia pri výskyte bakteriálnych pôvodcov infekčných ochorení s klinicky a epidemiologicky významnými mechanizmami rezistencie (Ministerstva zdravotníctva Slovenskej republiky, 2014) 
  
  (This document includes guidance for infection prevention and control of MRSA)

Slovenia

• Professional basis and guidelines for the control and prevention of healthcare-associated infections (2009)

Spain

• Recomendaciones sobre precauciones estándar y precauciones basadas en la transmisión de microorganismos (2017)

Sweden

• MRSA (2023)
• MRSA Varför har jag fått den här informationen? (2023)
• Förebyggande av spridning av MRSA från människa till lantbrukets djur (2015)
• Screening för antibiotikaresistenta bakterier – Rapport från en arbetsgrupp med representanter från smittskydd och vårdhygien 2016-2017 (2017)

Countries outside the EU/EEA

United Kingdom

• Implementation of modified admission MRSA screening guidance for NHS (Department of Health expert advisory committee on Antimicrobial Resistance and Healthcare Associated Infection (ARHAI), 2014)