Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus: Risk factors of infection/colonisation and clonal heterogeneity in an intensive care unit;Methicillin-resistenter Staphylococcus aureus: Risikofaktoren der infektion/kolonisation und klonale heterogenitat des erregers auf einer intensivstation

Anasthesiologie Intensivmedizin Notfallmedizin Schmerztherapie

Volumn 33, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 497-500

  Wichelhaus, T A ^a,c   Westphal, K ^b   Kassier, P ^b   Schafer V ^a   Brade, V ^a  

^a Inst F Medizinische Mikrobiologie

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL FRANKFURT   (Germany)

^c GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; Hygiene regime; Infection; MRSA; Risk factors

Indexed keywords

ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; DNA DETERMINATION; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HYGIENE; INFECTION RISK; INTENSIVE CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MORTALITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SEPSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0031870408     PISSN: 09392661     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2007-994797     Document Type: Article

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