Understanding the epidemic of community-associated MRSA and finding a cure: Are we asking the right questions?

Expert Review of Anti-Infective Therapy

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 141-143

  Otto, Michael ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CLONAL VARIATION; COMMUNITY ASSOCIATED METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS INFECTION; EDITORIAL; EPIDEMIC; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HUMAN; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS INFECTION; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; GENETICS; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; UNITED STATES; VIRULENCE;

COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HUMANS; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; UNITED STATES; VIRULENCE;

EID: 64049118392     PISSN: 14787210     EISSN: 17448336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/14787210.7.2.141     Document Type: Editorial

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