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Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in the western region of Saudi Arabia: prevalence and antibiotic susceptibility pattern

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) emerged in 1960 and was a problem confined largely to the healthcare setting, or hospital-associated MRSA (HA-MRSA). In the 1990s, community-associated MRSA (CA-MRSA) infections appeared. In Saudi Arabia, the prevalence of...

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Autores principales: El Amin, Nagwa M., Faidah, Hani S.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6080990/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22871621
http://dx.doi.org/10.5144/0256-4947.2012.513