Nursing Homes as Reservoirs of MRSA: Myth or Reality?

Journal of the American Medical Directors Association

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 414-418

  Garazi, Michele ^a   Edwards, Barbara ^a   Caccavale, Donna ^b   Auerbach, Charles ^c   Wolf Klein, Gisele ^a  

^a LONG ISLAND JEWISH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Parker Jewish Institute for Health Care and Rehabilitation   (United States)

^c ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

antibiotics; colonization; infection control; Long term care facilities; methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CREATINE;

AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; ASIAN; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BALLOON CATHETER; CHRONIC LUNG DISEASE; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE CARRIER; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; KIDNEY FAILURE; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS INFECTION; NOSE SMEAR; NURSING HOME; PREVALENCE; RACE DIFFERENCE;

EID: 67649085846     PISSN: 15258610     EISSN: 15389375     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jamda.2009.02.014     Document Type: Article

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