Transatlantic spread of the USA300 clone of MRSA [6]

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 353, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 532-533

  Tietz, Andreas ^a   Frei, Reno ^a   Widmer, Andreas F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PSEUDOMONIC ACID;

ADULT; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CASE REPORT; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; EUROPE; GENOTYPE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; LETTER; MALE; MASS SCREENING; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUTH HYGIENE; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; THROAT CULTURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES; CELL CLONE; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; SWITZERLAND;

ADULT; CLONE CELLS; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; SWITZERLAND; UNITED STATES;

EID: 23044472942     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM200508043530522     Document Type: Letter

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