Epidemics of community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in the United States: a meta-analysis.

Staphylococcus aureus is the most frequent cause of skin and soft tissue infections in humans. Methicillin-resistant strains of S. aureus (MRSA) that emerged in the 1960s presented a relatively limited public health threat until the 1990s, when novel community-associated (CA-) MRSA strains began cir...

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Main Authors: Vanja M Dukic, Diane S Lauderdale, Jocelyn Wilder, Robert S Daum, Michael Z David
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/23300988/pdf/?tool=EBI