Impact of a short period of pre-enrichment on detection and bacterial loads of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus from screening specimens

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 47, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 3326-3328

  Van Heirstraeten, L ^a,c   Abrahantes, J Cortiñas ^b   Lammens, C ^a,c   Lee, A ^d   Harbarth, S ^d   Molenberghs, G ^b   Aerts, M ^b   Goossens, H ^a,c   Malhotra Kumar, S ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b HASSELT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c Vaccine and Infectious Disease Institute   (Belgium)

^d GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIUM DETECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; HUMANS; MASS SCREENING; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 70349633982     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.01088-09     Document Type: Article

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