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Longitudinal study of the molecular epidemiology of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus at a university hospital.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Dec 2006
Petersdorf Sabine, Oberdorfer Klaus, Wendt Constanze
Abstract excerpt
Surveillance for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) at the University Hospital of Heidelberg revealed an increase in the numbers of newly detected MRSA isolates in recent years. We conducted a study to assess the dynamics of the changes in the MRSA population. Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) typing of MRSA isolates from all patients at the University Hospital of Heidelberg collected...
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