[OBJECTIVES - In November 2010, wescreened patients admitted to the MilitaryHospital, 1st Department of Internal Medi-cine for meticillin-resistant Staphylococcusaureusand Gram-negative, extended spec-trum beta-lactamase producing bacteria.We detected the prevalence of colonisationor infection by these strains during hospitalstay. METHODS - We compiled a datasheet toregister patient data and results. Swabsfrom one of the anterior nares, the throatand the rectal area were taken at admissionand discharge after informed consent of thepatients. Microbiological samples wereprocessed by current microbiology guide-lines. RESULTS - During the one-month studyperiod, 134 adult patients were admitted,105 of who consented to the examination.At admission, six patients (5.7%) carriedmeticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureusand five patients (4.76%) carried extendedspectrum β-lactamase producing Esche-richia coli. In one patient (0.95%) nosoco-mial extended spectrum β-lactamase pro-ducing Enterobacter cloacaewas identifiedin the rectal sample. In two patients (1.9%),rectal colonisation by Streptococcus pyogeneswas detected. CONCLUSIONS - Screening patients formeticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureusin our department is important because ofthe high rate of patients returning to thehaematologic department, and consideringthat 4.5% of patients admitted to ourDepartment were transported to surgicaldepartments in 2010. It is particularlyimportant to determine the sampling location. The prevalence of rectal colonisatonby extended spectrum β-lactamase produc-ing bacteria was in accordance with international data. We didn’t detect infectionprovoked by the examined bacteria duringthe study period.]

Background and aim - Somatic and mental health and stress factors of physicians became an issue of growing interest in both national and international researches. Our aim is to give an overviewing analysis of Hungarian physicians’ mental health state. Methods - Representative, cross-sectional, quantitative survey on a representative sample of Hungarian physicians (n=4784). The control group was formed by the population group of a national survey conducted by “Hungarostudy 2013” (n=2000). Results - Suicidal thoughts (18.8% vs. 9.6%, p<0.001), the scores of Somatic Symptom Scale (PHQ-10, 20.4% vs. 13.6%, p<0.001) were significantly higher among physicians. The suicidal attempts (1.9% vs. 3.5%, p=0.053) and BDI depression scores (7.9% vs. 29.5%, p<0.001) were significantly higher in the control group. High Perceived Stress Scale (PPS) scores occurred in 43.3% of the physicians sample, and 43.4% of them had high scores in the Athenian Insomnia Scale (AIS). The young (<35) female physicians showed significantly higher rates of suicidal thoughts, higher scores of PHQ and PPS. In the young female cohort, the AIS scores were significantly higher than of the other physicians. Conclusions - Mental health of physicians (sleep disorders, suicidal thoughts and psychosomatic symptoms) showed poorer results than the population data. BDI scores and the rate of suicidal attempts showed favourable trends. The next step in the physicians’ mental health researches is to investigate the most decisive risk factors, and to work out the prevention tools.