Identifying the risk factors for hospital-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infection among patients colonized with MRSA on admission

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 33, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1219-1225

  Fukuta, Yuriko ^a   Cunningham, Candace A ^b   Harris, Patricia L ^b   Wagener, Marilyn M ^a   Muder, Robert R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; EYE INFECTION; FEMALE; GRAFT INFECTION; HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL ACQUIRED METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS INFECTION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS INFECTION; MORTALITY; NURSING HOME; OSTEOMYELITIS; PERITONITIS; PNEUMONIA; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SKIN INFECTION; SOFT TISSUE INFECTION; SURGICAL INFECTION; TRANSFUSION; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CARRIER STATE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CATHETERIZATION, CENTRAL VENOUS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CROSS INFECTION; DEGLUTITION DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE; MALE; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING HOMES; PATIENT ADMISSION; RESPIRATORY INSUFFICIENCY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; WOUNDS AND INJURIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84869201285     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/668420     Document Type: Article

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