Evidence for Community Transmission of Community-Associated but Not Health-Care-Associated Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus Strains Linked to Social and Material Deprivation: Spatial Analysis of Cross-sectional Data

PLoS Medicine

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Tosas Auguet, Olga ^a,b   Betley, Jason R ^c   Stabler, Richard A ^d   Patel, Amita ^a   Ioannou, Avgousta ^c   Marbach, Helene ^a   Hearn, Pasco ^a   Aryee, Anna ^a   Goldenberg, Simon D ^a   Otter, Jonathan A ^a   Desai, Nergish ^e   Karadag, Tacim ^f   Grundy, Chris ^d   Gaunt, Michael W ^d   Cooper, Ben S ^b,g   Edgeworth, Jonathan D ^a   Kypraios, Theodore ^h  

^a GUY'S AND ST THOMAS' NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c Cambridge Limited   (United Kingdom)

^d LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^e King s Hospital NHS Foundation Trust   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL LEWISHAM   (United Kingdom)

^g MAHIDOL OXFORD TROPICAL MEDICINE RESEARCH UNIT   (Thailand)

^h UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; LATEX AGGLUTINATION TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; SCORING SYSTEM; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; CROSS INFECTION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ENGLAND; INFANT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MATERNAL DEPRIVATION; MIDDLE AGED; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL ISOLATION; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; CROSS INFECTION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LONDON; MALE; MATERNAL DEPRIVATION; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MIDDLE AGED; SOCIAL ISOLATION; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84961311368     PISSN: 15491277     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001944     Document Type: Article

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