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The influence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) carriers in a nursery and transmission of MRSA to their households.
The Journal of hospital infection - 1 May 1999
Mitsuda T, Arai K, Ibe M, Imagawa T, Tomono N, Yokota S
Abstract excerpt
We examined two persistent MRSA-carrier nurses in a maternity hospital to elucidate the transmission of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) from healthcare providers to newborn infants and to the nurses' own families. Genotyping of the MRSA strains was performed by analyzing genomic DNA restriction length polymorphisms from pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE-RFLPs). The children of these nurses...
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