Admission prevalence and acquisition of nasal carriage of meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in German rehabilitation centres

Journal of Hospital Infection

Volumn 87, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 115-118

  Kock R ^a   Winner, K ^a   Schaumburg, F ^a   Jurke, A ^b   Rossen, J W ^c   Friedrich, A W ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b NRW Institute of Health and Work   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Germany; MRSA; Rehabilitation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; CHRONIC WOUND; COHORT ANALYSIS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS INFECTION; MULTICENTER STUDY; NOSE SMEAR; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REHABILITATION CENTER; SWINE; AGED; CLINICAL TRIAL; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GERMANY; HETEROZYGOTE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTOR; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS;

AGED; CARRIER STATE; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; MALE; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REHABILITATION CENTERS; RISK FACTORS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS;

EID: 84901663887     PISSN: 01956701     EISSN: 15322939     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhin.2014.02.007     Document Type: Article

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