Molecular epidemiology of meticillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA): Think regionally but use globally uniform typing languages

Eurosurveillance

Volumn 18, Issue 43, 2013, Pages

  Jurke, A ^a   Kock R ^b   Becker, K ^b   Thole, S ^a   Hendrix, R ^c   Rossen, J ^c   Daniels Haardt, I ^a   Friedrich, A W ^c  

^a NRW Institute of Health and Work   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL WORKER; HUMAN; LETTER; LIVESTOCK; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOLECULAR TYPING; NOMENCLATURE; NONHUMAN; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAILOR; SCREENING;

EID: 84886694015     PISSN: 1025496X     EISSN: 15607917     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2807/1560-7917.ES2013.18.43.20617     Document Type: Letter

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