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Are community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) strains replacing traditional nosocomial MRSA strains?
Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America - 15 Mar 2008
Popovich Kyle J, Weinstein Robert A, Hota Bala
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BACKGROUND: Recent studies have suggested that community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infection is encroaching on health care settings. We describe the epidemiology of hospital-onset community-associated MRSA bloodstream infections using phenotypic and genotypic analysis. METHODS: Using an update of an established rule derived from antibiotic susceptibilities, we inferred...
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