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Molecular epidemiology of MRSA in 13 ICUs from eight European countries.
The Journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy - 1 Jan 2016
Hetem D J, Derde L P G, Empel J, Mroczkowska A, Orczykowska-Kotyna M, Kozińska A, Hryniewicz W, Goossens H, Bonten M J M
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OBJECTIVES: The European epidemiology of MRSA is changing with the emergence of community-associated MRSA (CA-MRSA) and livestock-associated MRSA (LA-MRSA). In this study, we investigated the molecular epidemiology of MRSA during 2 years in 13 ICUs in France, Greece, Italy, Latvia, Luxemburg, Portugal, Slovenia and Spain. METHODS: Surveillance cultures for MRSA from nose and wounds were obtained on admission and...
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