Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus: A four-year experience in a spinal cord injury unit in Spain

Spinal Cord

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 315-319

  Olona Cabases, M ^a   Tico Falguera N ^a   Ramirez Garceran L ^a   Del Valle Ortiz, O ^a   Castello Verdu T ^a   Garcia Fernandez L ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI VALL D HEBRON   (Spain)

Author keywords

control measures; methicillin resistant; spinal cord injury; Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA)

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ERYTHROMYCIN; FOSFOMYCIN; FUSIDIC ACID; GENTAMICIN; LINCOSAMINE; METICILLIN; NORFLOXACIN; RIFAMPICIN; TOBRAMYCIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG RESISTANCE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD INJURY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 0029984755     PISSN: 13624393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sc.1996.58     Document Type: Article

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