Health-care workers: source, vector, or victim of MRSA?

The Lancet Infectious Diseases

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 289-301

  Albrich, Werner C ^a,b   Harbarth, Stephan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORHEXIDINE; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DOXYCYCLINE; FUSIDIC ACID; PSEUDOMONIC ACID; RIFAMPICIN;

BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; CHRONIC OTITIS MEDIA; COMORBIDITY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; COST CONTROL; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; DECOLONISATION THERAPY; DEMOGRAPHY; DERMATITIS; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENDEMIC DISEASE; ERADICATION THERAPY; ETHICS; FOLLOW UP; GENOTYPE; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HOSPITAL PERSONNEL; HUMAN; HYGIENE; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION PREVENTION; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL STUDENT; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; NURSING HOME; NURSING HOME PERSONNEL; POPULATION MODEL; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHYLAXIS; RECURRENT DISEASE; REVIEW; RHINITIS; RISK FACTOR; SCREENING; SINUSITIS; SKIN DEFECT; SKIN DISEASE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; TREATMENT DURATION; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; WORK EXPERIENCE;

CARRIER STATE; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, PROFESSIONAL-TO-PATIENT; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; HYGIENE; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 42949119283     PISSN: 14733099     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1473-3099(08)70097-5     Document Type: Review

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