Follow-up cultures for MRSA after eradication therapy: Are three culture-sets enough?

Journal of Infection

Volumn 70, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 491-498

  Lekkerkerk, Wouter S N ^a   Uljee, Marissa ^a   Prkić, Ante ^a   Maas, Britta D P J ^a   Severin, Juliëtte A ^a   Vos, Margreet C ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Disease eradication; Follow up studies; MRSA; Recurrence; Risk factors

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM CARRIER; BACTERIUM CULTURE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERADICATION THERAPY; FEMALE; GENDER; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTRAVASCULAR CATHETER; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS INFECTION; NONHUMAN; RECURRENT DISEASE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DRUG EFFECTS; FOLLOW UP; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HETEROZYGOTE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NOSE; PHARYNX; RISK FACTOR; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; TIME;

ADULT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CARRIER STATE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MIDDLE AGED; NOSE; PHARYNX; RECURRENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84926985487     PISSN: 01634453     EISSN: 15322742     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jinf.2015.01.006     Document Type: Article

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