High Prevalence of EMRSA-15 in Portuguese Public Buses: A Worrisome Finding

BACKGROUND: The nosocomial prevalence of methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in Portugal remains one of the highest in Europe and is currently around 50%. Transmission of S. aureus, including MRSA, occurs principally by direct human-to-human skin contact. However, S. aureus can surviv...

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Autores principales: Simões, Roméo Rocha, Aires-de-Sousa, Marta, Conceição, Teresa, Antunes, Filipa, da Costa, Paulo Martins, de Lencastre, Hermínia
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2011
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3047573/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21407807
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0017630

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3047573/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21407807
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0017630

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