Characteristics of hospital patients colonized with livestock-associated meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) CC398 versus other MRSA clones

Journal of Hospital Infection

Volumn 79, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 292-296

  Kock R ^a   Siam, K ^a   Al Malat, S ^a   Christmann, J ^a   Schaumburg, F ^a   Becker, K ^a   Friedrich, A W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

CC398; DRG; Livestock; Meticillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus; ST398; Transmission

Indexed keywords

STAPHYLOCOCCUS PROTEIN A;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CHILD; CLONE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; INFANT; INFECTION RATE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LENGTH OF STAY; LIVESTOCK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS INFECTION; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SCHOOL CHILD; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMALS; CARRIER STATE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR TYPING; RISK FACTORS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL PROTEIN A; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 81055156668     PISSN: 01956701     EISSN: 15322939     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhin.2011.08.011     Document Type: Article

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