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Positive nasal culture of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is a risk factor for surgical site infection in orthopedics

Background Although nasal carriage of MRSA has been identified as one of the risk factors for surgical site infection (SSI) with MRSA, there have been no reports of this in the orthopedics field. Methods This prospective observational cohort study included 2,423 consecutive patients who were admitte...

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Autores principales: Yano, Koichi, Minoda, Yukihide, Sakawa, Akira, Kuwano, Yoshihiro, Kondo, Kyoko, Fukushima, Wakaba, Tada, Koichi
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Informa Healthcare 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2823191/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19593719
http://dx.doi.org/10.3109/17453670903110675