Consequences of MRSA carriage in nursing home residents

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 122, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 235-239

  Niclaes, L ^a,b   Buntinx, F ^c   Banuro, F ^c   Lesaffre, E ^c   Heyrman, J ^c  

^a Institute Ed Remy   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CARRIER; COHORT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MORTALITY; NOSE; NURSING HOME; PERINEUM; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESIDENTIAL HOME; RISK; SPUTUM ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THROAT; URINALYSIS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARRIER STATE; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HOMES FOR THE AGED; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING HOMES; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0032956012     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268898001770     Document Type: Article

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