Prevalence of community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus colonization in a random sample of healthy individuals

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 28, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1044-1046

  Rim, Jean Y ^a   Bacon III, Alfred E ^a,b  

^a CHRISTIANA CARE HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METICILLIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMMUNITY ASSESSMENT; FEMALE; GENETIC SIMILARITY; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFECTION CONTROL; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; NORMAL HUMAN; PREVALENCE; RIBOTYPING; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CARRIER STATE; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; DELAWARE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; MIDDLE AGED; NOSE; PREVALENCE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 34548328272     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/519934     Document Type: Article

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