Antimicrobial therapy for methicillin-resistant s taphylococcus aureus colonization in residents and staff of a veterans affairs nursing home care unit

Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 1992, Pages 151-159

  Strausbaugh, Larry J ^a   Jacobson, Cleone ^b   Sewell, David L ^b   Potter, Susan ^b   Ward, Thomas T ^c  

^a PORTLAND VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINDAMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; RIFAMPICIN; TRIMETHOPRIM SULFAMETHOXAZOLE COMBINATION;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; DISEASE CARRIER; GOVERNMENT; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NURSING HOME; NURSING STAFF; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; RECURRENT DISEASE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; UNITED STATES;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CLINDAMYCIN; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; MIDDLE AGE; NURSING STAFF; OREGON; RECURRENCE; RIFAMPIN; SKILLED NURSING FACILITIES; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TRIMETHOPRIM-SULFAMETHOXAZOLE COMBINATION; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS;

EID: 0026828077     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: 15596834     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/646499     Document Type: Article

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