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Low prevalence of methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus as determined by an automated identification system in two private hospitals in Nairobi, Kenya: a cross sectional study

BACKGROUND: Staphylococcus aureus (S.aureus) is a major cause of both healthcare and community acquired infections. In developing countries, manual phenotypic tests are the mainstay for the identification of staphylococci with the tube and slide coagulase tests being relied upon as confirmatory test...

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Autores principales: Omuse, Geoffrey, Kabera, Beatrice, Revathi, Gunturu
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4269929/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25495139
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12879-014-0669-y