Residential proximity to large numbers of swine in feeding operations is associated with increased risk of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus colonization at time of hospital admission in rural Iowa veterans

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 190-192

  Carrel, Margaret ^a   Schweizer, Marin L ^b,c   Sarrazin, Mary Vaughan ^b,c   Smith, Tara C ^d   Perencevich, Eli N ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^d KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ANIMAL; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTOR; RURAL POPULATION; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SWINE; UNITED STATES; VERY ELDERLY; VETERAN; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; IOWA; MALE; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS; RURAL POPULATION; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; SWINE; VETERANS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84892735453     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/674860     Document Type: Article

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