Community-associated Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Outpatients, United States, 1999–2006

Community-associated Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Outpatients, United States, 1999–2006

Community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA) has become a major problem in US hospitals already dealing with high levels of hospital-associated MRSA (HA-MRSA). Using antimicrobial drug susceptibility data for 1999–2006 from The Surveillance Network, we characterized the...

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Main Authors: Eili Klein, David L. Smith, Ramanan Laxminarayan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2009-12-01
Series:Emerging Infectious Diseases
Subjects:
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus
community-associated MRSA
hospital-associated MRSA
phenotypic susceptibility
outpatients
staphylococci
Online Access:https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/15/12/08-1341_article

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