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Prospective surveillance of community-onset and healthcare-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolated from a university-affiliated hospital in Japan.
Microbiology and immunology - 1 Jan 2005
Piao Chuncheng, Karasawa Toshiko, Totsuka Kyoichi, Uchiyama Takehiko, Kikuchi Ken
Abstract excerpt
We conducted a prospective comparative study of community-onset (CO) and healthcare-associated (HA) methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus(MRSA) strains between 2000 and 2001 at Tokyo Women's Medical University Hospital (1,500 beds) in Japan. Of the 172 consecutive MRSA isolates analyzed, 13 (8%) were categorized as CO-MRSA. The mean age of patients with CO-MRSA was significantly younger than that of...
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