Are correctional facilities amplifying the epidemic of community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus?

Nature Reviews Microbiology

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 83-

  Okano, Justin T ^a   Blower, Sally ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METICILLIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; CROWDING; EPIDEMIC; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LETTER; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS INFECTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRISON; RISK FACTOR; UNITED STATES; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; NOTE; PRISONER; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION;

METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; PRISONERS; PRISONS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 73949136239     PISSN: 17401526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrmicro2200-c1     Document Type: Letter

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