New research has come to some surprising, and potentially troubling, conclusions about the prevalence of Staphylococcus aureus colonization in spinal cord stimulation (SCS) patients.
The study found not only that colonization with the bacteria was present in more than 20% of SCS patients, but that methicillin-susceptible S. aureus (MssA) was nearly five times more prevalent than methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA). Furthermore, MRSA screening alone would not have identified more than 90% of