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Epidemiology of Staphylococcus aureus in a burn unit of a tertiary care center in Ghana

BACKGROUND: In developing countries, hospitalized burn victims are at high risk of nosocomial infections caused by Staphylococcus aureus. Risk factors include poor infection control practices, prolonged hospitalisation and limited capacity for laboratory microbiological analyses. These problems are...

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Autores principales:	Amissah, Nana Ama, van Dam, Lieke, Ablordey, Anthony, Ampomah, Opoku-Ware, Prah, Isaac, Tetteh, Caitlin S., van der Werf, Tjip S., Friedrich, Alexander W., Rossen, John W., van Dijl, Jan Maarten, Stienstra, Ymkje
Formato:	Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	Public Library of Science 2017
Materias:	Research Article
Acceso en línea:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5509299/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28704546 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0181072

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