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Predominance of community-associated sequence type 59 methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in a paediatric intensive care unit.
Journal of medical microbiology - 1 Mar 2018
Song Qifa, Wu Junhua, Ruan Peisen
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PURPOSE: To investigate the distribution of molecular types of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in a paediatric intensive care unit (PICU) according to their community-associated (CA) and hospital-associated (HA) source of acquisition, and thus assess the degree to which CA-MRSA has been introduced into the PICU. METHODOLOGY: We implemented an MRSA surveillance in a PICU during 2013-2016 and...
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