Limited value of routine spa typing: A cross-sectional study of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus-positive patients in an Austrian hospital

American Journal of Infection Control

Volumn 41, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 617-624

  Schmid, Daniela ^a   Simons, Erica ^a   Ruppitsch, Werner ^a   Hrivniaková, Lucia ^a   Stoeger, Anna ^a   Wechsler Fördös, Agnes ^b   Peter, Leonie ^b   Geppert, Friederike ^b   Allerberger, Franz ^a  

^a AUSTRIAN AGENCY FOR HEALTH AND FOOD SAFETY   (Austria)

^b Hospital Rudolfstiftung   (Austria)

Author keywords

Community acquired; Epidemiological classification; Health care acquired; Outcome; Protein A gene

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRIA; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; FEMALE; GENE SEQUENCE; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS INFECTION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUSTRIA; BACTERIAL TOXINS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; CROSS INFECTION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EXOTOXINS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEUKOCIDINS; MALE; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR TYPING; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS;

EID: 84879498836     PISSN: 01966553     EISSN: 15273296     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajic.2012.09.013     Document Type: Article

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