Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in the community: New battlefronts, or are the battles lost?

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 398-403

  Cookson, Barry David ^a  

^a CENTRAL PUBLIC HEALTH LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; HEALTH; HUMAN; MICROBIOLOGY; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION;

COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HUMANS; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 0034202653     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/501781     Document Type: Article

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