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Are There Better Methods of Monitoring MRSA Control than Bacteraemia Surveillance? An Observational Database Study

BACKGROUND: Despite a substantial burden of non-bacteraemic methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) disease, most MRSA surveillance schemes are based on bacteraemias. Using bacteraemia as an outcome, trends at hospital level are difficult to discern, due to random variation. We investigat...

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Autores principales: Walker, Sarah, Peto, Tim E. A., O'Connor, Lily, Crook, Derrick W., Wyllie, David
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2405929/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18545686
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0002378