An outbreak of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus surgical-site infections initiated by a healthcare worker with chronic sinusitis

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 213-215

  Faibis, Frederic ^a   Laporte, Cedric ^a   Fiacre, Alain ^a   Delisse, Chantal ^a   Lina, Gerard ^b   Demachy, Marie Claude ^a   Botterel, Françoise ^c  

^a CENTRE HOSPITALIER DE MEAUX   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^c HENRI MONDOR HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ERYTHROMYCIN; KANAMYCIN; LINCOMYCIN; METICILLIN; PEFLOXACIN; POVIDONE IODINE; PSEUDOMONIC ACID; RIFAMPICIN; TOBRAMYCIN;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CARRIER; CHRONIC SINUSITIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; HAND WASHING; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SURGICAL INFECTION;

ADULT; AGED; CARRIER STATE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; FEMALE; FRANCE; HUMANS; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; MIDDLE AGED; SINUSITIS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 15944410702     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/502529     Document Type: Article

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