Personal hygiene and methicillinresistant Staphylococcus aureus infection

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 422-427

  Turabelidze, George ^a   Lin, Mei ^a   Wolkoff, Barbara ^a   Dodson, Douglas ^a   Gladbach, Stephen ^a   Zhu, Bao Ping ^a  

^a MISSOURI DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND SENIOR SERVICES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EPIDEMIC; HEALTH CARE; HUMAN; HYGIENE; INFORMATION; INTERVIEW; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MEDICAL RECORD; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; PERSONAL HYGIENE; PRISON; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; REVIEW; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES; ARTICLE; DRUG EFFECT; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; PRISONER; RISK; RISK FACTOR; STANDARD; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ADULT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HUMANS; HYGIENE; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; PRISONERS; PRISONS; RISK FACTORS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 33644537391     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1205.060625     Document Type: Review

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