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Vancomycin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in the United States, 2002-2006.
Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America - 1 Mar 2008
Sievert Dawn M, Rudrik James T, Patel Jean B, McDonald L Clifford, Wilkins Melinda J, Hageman Jeffrey C
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BACKGROUND: This report compares the clinical characteristics, epidemiologic investigations, infection-control evaluations, and microbiologic findings of all 7 of the cases of vancomycin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (VRSA) infection in the United States during the period 2002-2006. METHODS: Epidemiologic, clinical, and infection-control information was collected. VRSA isolates underwent confirmatory...
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