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Air and surface contamination patterns of meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus on eight acute hospital wards.

The Journal of hospital infection - 1 Mar 2014

Creamer E, Shore A C, Deasy E C, Galvin S, Dolan A, Walley N, McHugh S, Fitzgerald-Hughes D, Sullivan D J, Cunney R, Coleman D C, Humphreys H

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BACKGROUND: Meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) can be recovered from hospital air and from environmental surfaces. This poses a potential risk of transmission to patients. AIM: To investigate associations between MRSA isolates recovered from air and environmental surfaces with those from patients when undertaking extensive patient and environmental sampling. METHODS: This was a prospective...

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Cluster Analysis
DNA, Bacterial
Environmental Microbiology
Female
Genotype
Humans
Male
Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus
Microarray Analysis
Molecular Typing

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PMID: 24529449
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhin.2013.12.005

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