The impact of household transmission on duration of outpatient colonization with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 138, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 683-685

  Lautenbach, E ^a,b   Tolomeo, P ^b   Nachamkin, I ^b   Hu, B ^b   Zaoutis, T E ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Colonization; Household; MRSA

Indexed keywords

EXTRACHROMOSOMAL DNA;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AXILLA; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; INGUINAL REGION; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS INFECTION; MOLECULAR TYPING; NOSE SMEAR; OUTPATIENT; PERINEUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SAMPLING; SKIN INFECTION; SOFT TISSUE INFECTION; THROAT CULTURE; FAMILY HEALTH; FAMILY SIZE; FEMALE; HETEROZYGOTE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; STAPHYLOCOCCAL SKIN INFECTION; TIME;

ADULT; AGED; CARRIER STATE; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FAMILY HEALTH; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MIDDLE AGED; OUTPATIENTS; SOFT TISSUE INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL SKIN INFECTIONS; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77950868064     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: 14694409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268810000099     Document Type: Article

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