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What Is Community‐Associated Methicillin‐Resistant <i>Staphylococcus aureus?</i>
29 Mar 2008
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BACKGROUND: A community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA) infection has been defined as an MRSA infection in a patient who lacks specific risk factors for healthcare exposure. We sought to determine whether the absence or presence of these risk factors still predicts the phenotypic or genotypic characteristics of MRSA strains. METHODS: All clinical MRSA isolates were prospectively...
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