Intervention to reduce the incidence of healthcare-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infection in a tertiary care hospital in Saudi Arabia

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 411-413

  Ghazal, Sameeh S ^a   Hakawi, Ahmed M ^a   Demeter, Clara V ^a   Joseph, Mercy V ^a   Mukahal, Mahmoud A ^a  

^a KING FAHAD MEDICAL CITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORHEXIDINE; PSEUDOMONIC ACID;

BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; HEALTH CARE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS INFECTION; MORBIDITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SAUDI ARABIA; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS, LOCAL; CHLORHEXIDINE; GLOVES, PROTECTIVE; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; MASKS; MASS SCREENING; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MUPIROCIN; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PROTECTIVE CLOTHING; SAUDI ARABIA; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS;

EID: 79952584389     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/659256     Document Type: Letter

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