Increased EMRSA-15 health-care worker colonization demonstrated in retrospective review of EMRSA hospital outbreaks

Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Hart, Julie ^a   Christiansen, Keryn J ^a,b   Lee, Rosie ^a   Heath, Christopher H ^a,c   Coombs, Geoffrey W ^a,b   Robinson, J O ^a,b  

^a ROYAL PERTH HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Aus2 3 EMRSA; EMRSA 15; Health care workers; Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus; Outbreak

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; NONHUMAN; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

EID: 84928185412     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20472994     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/2047-2994-3-7     Document Type: Article

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