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Acquisition and persistence of strain-specific methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and their determinants in community nursing homes

BACKGROUND: Nursing home residents are frequently colonized with various strains of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) but the intra-facility dynamics of strain-specific MRSA remains poorly understood. We aimed at identifying and quantifying the associations between acquisition and c...

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Autores principales: Batina, Nataliya G., Crnich, Christopher J., Döpfer, Dörte
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5719525/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29212459
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12879-017-2837-3