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A comparison of clinical outcomes between healthcare-associated infections due to community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus strains and healthcare-associated methicillin-resistant S. aureus strains.
Epidemiology and infection - 1 Oct 2013
Eells S J, McKinnell J A, Wang A A, Green N L, Whang D, O'Hara P, Brown M L, Miller L G
Abstract excerpt
There are limited data examining whether outcomes of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) are worse when caused by community-associated (CA) strains compared to HA strains. We reviewed all patients' charts at our institution from 1999 to 2009 that had MRSA first isolated only after 72 h of hospitalization (n=724). Of these, 384 patients had a MRSA-HAI...
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