A reservoir for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in the Auckland community?

New Zealand Medical Journal

Volumn 115, Issue 1162, 2002, Pages

  Briggs, Simon ^a   McGuiness, Camilla ^a   Foster, Michelle ^a   Roberts, Sally ^a  

^a Auckland District Health Board ^*  (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METICILLIN;

AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CATHETERIZATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMMUNITY CARE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE CARRIER; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GERIATRIC CARE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; NOSE SMEAR; PERINEUM; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RESIDENTIAL CARE; RISK FACTOR; SKIN DEFECT; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; URINE CULTURE; WOUND INFECTION; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CROSS INFECTION; DRUG EFFECT; HOME FOR THE AGED; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NEW ZEALAND; NURSING HOME; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; RISK; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STATISTICS;

AGED; COHORT STUDIES; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; FEMALE; HOMES FOR THE AGED; HUMANS; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW ZEALAND; NURSING HOMES; ODDS RATIO; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; URINARY CATHETERIZATION;

EID: 0037183793     PISSN: 11758716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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