A new "superbug" leaves the hospital: Community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus

Home Healthcare Nurse

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 213-216

  Yetman, Lynn ^a  

^a Reingruber and Company P A   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; DRUG UTILIZATION; EPIDEMIC; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; METHODOLOGY; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; PRIMARY PREVENTION; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION (U.S.); CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DRUG UTILIZATION; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PRIMARY PREVENTION; RISK FACTORS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33744970713     PISSN: 0884741X     EISSN: 15390713     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00004045-200604000-00007     Document Type: Review

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