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Population-based community prevalence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in the urban poor of San Francisco.
Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America - 15 Feb 2002
Charlebois Edwin D, Bangsberg David R, Moss Nicholas J, Moore Matthew R, Moss Andrew R, Chambers Henry F, Perdreau-Remington Françoise
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The study objective was to determine the prevalence and risk factors for nasal colonization with Staphylococcus aureus and methicillin resistance among the urban poor and to compare antibiotic resistance and genetic similarity to concurrently collected clinical isolates of methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA). A population-based community sample of 833 homeless and marginally housed adults were cultured and...
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