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Meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus epidemiology and transmission in a Dutch hospital.
The Journal of hospital infection - 1 Aug 2009
van Rijen M M L, Bosch T, Heck M E O C, Kluytmans J A J W
Abstract excerpt
The application of the search and destroy (S&D) policy in Scandinavian and Dutch hospitals is associated with low rates of meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). The objective of our study was to describe the MRSA epidemiology and transmission in a Dutch hospital. This descriptive study was performed in a teaching hospital with approximately 40,000 admissions per year. In this hospital the MRSA S&D...
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