A new UK strain of epidemic methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (EMRSA-17) resistant to multiple antibiotics
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Decline of EMRSA-16 amongst methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus causing bacteraemias in the UK
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) emerged in 1961 and became dramatically more prevalent as agents of bacteraemia in the UK in the mid-1990s in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. By the end of the 1990s, .40% of all S. aureus bacteraemias were due to MRSA, though this proportion (and the total number) of MRSA bacteraemias has since declined and stood at 20% in 2008. The rise ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy
سال: 2002
ISSN: 1460-2091
DOI: 10.1093/jac/dkf117