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Origins of community strains of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.
Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America - 1 Jul 2004
Charlebois Edwin D, Perdreau-Remington Françoise, Kreiswirth Barry, Bangsberg David R, Ciccarone Daniel, Diep Binh A, Ng Valerie L, Chansky Kimberly, Edlin Brian R, Edlin Brian, Chambers Henry F
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To characterize methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) strains circulating in the community, we identified predictors of isolating community MRSA and genotyped a sample of MRSA collected from a community-based, high-risk population. Computerized databases of the Community Health Network of San Francisco and the Clinical Microbiology Laboratory were searched electronically for the years 1992-1999 to...
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