Reference

Study period

Location

Study Design

Setting

Aims of study

[11]

2014-2015

Barbados

Prospective,

observational

Hospital

To characterize S. aureus, MRSA in the Barbados healthcare system

2013-2016

Community

[12]

2004-2009

Martinique

Retrospective,

observational

Hospital

To evaluate the possible relationship between human migration and local MRSA epidemiology

2010-2011

Martinique Guadeloupe Tobago

Trinidad Jamaica

Retrospective,

observational

Hospital

[16]

2008

Cuba

Prospective,

observational

Hospital

To investigate the molecular epidemiology of MRSA isolates from four major

Cuban hospitals

[20]

2002

Manchester, southern Jamaica

Prospective,

observational

Hospital & Community

To assess the antimicrobial susceptibility patterns and prevalence of methicillin resistance among S. aureus isolates from hospital and community sources in southern Jamaica

[21]

2013 to 2017

Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Barbados

Retrospective cohort study

Hospital; Screening for colonization

To investigate the prevalence of MRSA and CRKP colonization and infection in the patients of the ICU and HDU units at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Barbados

[22]

Jamaica

Retrospective,

cross-sectional

Hospitalized patients (with skin and soft tissue infections)

To compare the carriage of virulence determinants and antibiotic resistance phenotypes between MRSA and MSSA isolates and examine their virulence potential using the nematode, C. elegans

[23]

2004-2007

Manhattan, New York City

Prospective,

observational

Community

To assess the potential for horizontal transmission of S. aureus ST398 and evidence for identical strain profiles between USA and Dominican Republic

Dominican Republic

Retrospective

Hospital

[24]

2007-2008

Dominican Republic

Retrospective,

observational

Community

To characterize S. aureus isolates from the DR and contrast this with S. aureus from Martinique

Martinique

Retrospective,

observational

Community

[25]

2014

Haiti

Prospective,

observational

Hospital

To determine incidence and independent risk factors for SSI after CS, as well as pathogens associated with infections

[26]

1999-2004

Trinidad

Retrospective,

observational

Hospital and Community

To characterize

MRSA isolates of S. aureus recovered from different sources in Trinidad

[27]

2011-2012

Kingston and St. Andrew metropolis, Jamaica

Retrospective observational

Hospital

To characterize MRSA isolates from patients admitted to public hospitals in the Kingston and St. Andrew metropolis