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Effect of duplicate isolates of methicillin-susceptible and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus on antibiogram data.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Oct 2003
Horvat Rebecca T, Klutman Neil E, Lacy Melinda K, Grauer Dennis, Wilson Marsha
Abstract excerpt
Duplicate Staphylococcus aureus isolates were analyzed to determine the impact of multiple isolates from the same patient on annual antibiogram data. During a 6-year period (1996 to 2001), 3,227 patients with 4,844 S. aureus isolates were evaluated. A total of 39% of patients with methicillin-res...
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