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Prevalence of community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in patients with cystic fibrosis.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Apr 2009
Goodrich Jennifer S, Sutton-Shields Tameaka N, Kerr Alan, Wedd Joel P, Miller Melissa B, Gilligan Peter H
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We prospectively determined the prevalence of community-associated Staphylococcus aureus in a large cystic fibrosis (CF) center between October 2005 and October 2007. We found that 2.7% (19/707) of the CF patients who had cultures during the study period were infected with this organism, representing 14% of the total methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus strains (n = 140) recovered from the patient...
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