MRSA prevalence and associated risk factors among health-care workers in non-outbreak situations in the Dutch-German EUREGIO

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 7, Issue AUG, 2016, Pages

  Sassmannshausen, Ricarda ^a   Deurenberg, Ruud H ^b   Köck, Robin ^a   Hendrix, Ron ^b,c   Jurke, Annette ^d   Rossen, John W A ^b   Friedrich, Alexander W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c CERTE LvI   (Netherlands)

^d Institute for Public Health North Rhine Westphalia   (Germany)

Author keywords

Decolonization; EurSafety health net; MRSA; MRSA risk factors; Personnel; Staff

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; NONHUMAN; PARASITE PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR;

EID: 84989187852     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2016.01273     Document Type: Article

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