Methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus and intercontinental travel - Bad bugs on the move

Journal of Travel Medicine

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 225-227

  Zanger, Philipp ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; CLINDAMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; TETRACYCLINE DERIVATIVE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED INFECTION; EDITORIAL; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MIGRATION; SKIN INFECTION; SOFT TISSUE INFECTION; STAPHYLOCOCCAL SKIN INFECTION; TRAVEL; EPIDEMIC; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HUMANS; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; TRAVEL;

EID: 84903690960     PISSN: 11951982     EISSN: 17088305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jtm.12140     Document Type: Editorial

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