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Dissemination of community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in a tertiary care hospital.
Southern medical journal - 1 Jan 2008
Patel Mukesh, Hoesley Craig J, Moser Stephen A, Stamm Alan M, Baddley John W, Waites Ken B
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BACKGROUND: The epidemiology of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) was investigated at a tertiary care hospital, and relationship was made between the clinical and genetic definitions of community- and healthcare-associated MRSA. METHODS: Nonduplicate isolates of S. aureus were collected during 2004. Isolates were classified clinically as community-associated (CA) or healthcare-associated (HA)....
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