Egg crater mattresses: A deposit of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus?;Colchões do tipo caixa de ovo: Um reservatório de Staphylococcus aureus resistente à meticilina?

Revista da Escola de Enfermagem

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 156-161

  Ferreira, Adriano Menis ^a,b   de Andrade, Denise ^b   de Almeida, Margarete Teresa Gottardo ^c   Cunha, Keith Cássia ^c   Rigotti, Marcelo Alessandro ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MATO GROSSO DO SUL   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c Sao Jose do Rio Preto Medical School   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Beds; Cross infection; Equipment contamination; Methicillin resistance; Staphylococcus aureus

Indexed keywords

EID: 79953800214     PISSN: 00806234     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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