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Associations between Staphylococcus aureus Genotype, Infection, and In-Hospital Mortality: A Nested Case-Control Study.
The Journal of infectious diseases - 1 Oct 2005
Wertheim Heiman F L, van Leeuwen Willem B, Snijders Susan, Vos Margreet C, Voss Andreas, Vandenbroucke-Grauls Christina M J E, Kluytmans Jan A J W, Verbrugh Henri A, van Belkum Alex
Abstract excerpt
We screened 14,008 adult nonsurgical patients for Staphylococcus aureus nasal carriage at hospital admission and assessed them for invasive S. aureus disease and in-hospital mortality. Multilocus sequence typing was performed on endogenous invasive strains and nasal strains of matched asymptomatic carriers to investigate whether virulent clones could be identified in nasal carriers. Clonal complex (CC) 45 was...
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