Transmission via the face is one route of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus cross-infection within a hospital

American Journal of Infection Control

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 126-130

  Kuramoto Chikamatsu, Akane ^a   Honda, Takayuki ^a   Matsumoto, Takehisa ^a   Shiohara, Mayumi ^a   Kawakami, Yoshiyuki ^c   Yamauchi, Kazuyoshi ^a   Kato, Yumiko ^b  

^a Department of Laboratory Medicine ^*  (Japan)

^b SHINSHU UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c SHINSHU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CRANIAL NERVE; CROSS INFECTION; DNA DETERMINATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS;

BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; CROSS INFECTION; DNA, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; FACE; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 33847105405     PISSN: 01966553     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajic.2006.07.005     Document Type: Article

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