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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...
Autores principales: | Simões, Roméo Rocha, Aires-de-Sousa, Marta, Conceição, Teresa, Antunes, Filipa, da Costa, Paulo Martins, de Lencastre, Hermínia |
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Formato: | Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Public Library of Science
2011
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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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