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Infections caused by multiple strains of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus--a pressing epidemiological issue.
The Journal of hospital infection - 1 Jul 1998
Wang J, Sawai T, Tomono K, Yanagihara K, Hirakata Y, Matsuda J, Mochida C, Iori F, Koga H, Tashiro T, Kohno S
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The genotype of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) strains isolated from several foci in the same patient was studied to identify the rate of infections caused by multiple MRSA strains during hospitalization. Twenty-one patients with MRSA bacteraemia and other specimens diagnosed between 1990-1994 were studied. Clinical data were retrospectively collected from the medical records. Genotyping of...
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