Letter to the editor: Seafarers: a new risk group for meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA)
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Letter to the editor: seafarers: a new risk group for meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA).
In 2010, we noticed that clinical cultures with unexpected MRSA in the Harbour Hospital (Port of Rotterdam, the Netherlands) were mainly from seafarers. Although the Harbour Hospital is especially equipped for seafarers, this patient population only accounts for 1.2% of all admissions [3]. Since seafarers are not considered an MRSA risk group, all seafarer patients were screened (nose and throa...
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عنوان ژورنال: Eurosurveillance
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1560-7917
DOI: 10.2807/1560-7917.es2013.18.43.20618