Prevalence and acquisition of MRSA amongst patients admitted to a tertiary-care hospital in brazil

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Santos, Helena B ^a,b   Machado, Denise P ^a   Camey, Suzi A ^b   Kuchenbecker, Ricardo S ^a,b   Barth, Afonso L ^a,b   Wagner, Mário B ^b  

^a HOSPITAL DE CLÍNICAS DE PORTO ALEGRE   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PENICILLIN BINDING PROTEIN 2A; PROTEIN MECA TYPE I; PROTEIN MECA TYPE III; PROTEIN MECA TYPE IV; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM CARRIER; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BRAZIL; CHARLSON COMORBIDITY SCORE; CHILD; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INCIDENCE; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS INFECTION; NOSE SMEAR; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SCORING SYSTEM; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; WARD; AGED; CROSS INFECTION; HETEROZYGOTE; INFANT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; STATISTICS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAZIL; CARRIER STATE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS INFECTION; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; MALE; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTORS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS;

EID: 78149324833     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-10-328     Document Type: Article

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