Newly identified risk factors for MRSA carriage in The Netherlands.
To elucidate new risk factors for MRSA carriers without known risk factors (MRSA of unknown origin; MUO). These MUO carriers are neither pre-emptively screened nor isolated as normally dictated by the Dutch Search & Destroy policy, thus resulting in policy failure.We performed a prospective case...
Main Authors: | W S N Lekkerkerk, A Haenen, M A B van der Sande, T Leenstra, S de Greeff, A Timen, A Tjon-A-Tsien, J H Richardus, N van de Sande-Bruinsma, M C Vos |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2017-01-01
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Series: | PLoS ONE |
Online Access: | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5708665?pdf=render |
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