New insights into meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) pathogenesis, treatment and resistance
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Meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA): screening and decolonisation.
Meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infections are of increasing importance to clinicians, public health agencies and governments. Prevention and control strategies must address sources in healthcare settings, the community and livestock. This document presents the conclusions of a European Consensus Conference on the role of screening and decolonisation in the control of MRSA inf...
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Staphylococcus aureus is an opportunistic pathogen often carried asymptomatically on the human body. Methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA) includes those strains that have acquired a gene giving them resistance to methicillin and essentially all other beta-lactam antibiotics. MRSA was first reported in 1961, soon after methicillin was introduced into human medicine to treat penicillinresistant...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents
سال: 2012
ISSN: 0924-8579
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijantimicag.2011.09.028