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A prospective study to examine the epidemiology of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and Clostridium difficile contamination in the general environment of three community hospitals in southern Ontario, Canada
BACKGROUND: The hospital environment has been suggested as playing an important role in the transmission of hospital-associated (HA) pathogens. However, studies investigating the contamination of the hospital environment with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) or Clostridium difficil...
Autores principales: | Faires, Meredith C, Pearl, David L, Ciccotelli, William A, Straus, Karen, Zinken, Giovanna, Berke, Olaf, Reid-Smith, Richard J, Weese, J Scott |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2012
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3532087/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23136936 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2334-12-290 |
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