Molecular Epidemiology of an Outbreak Caused by Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus in a Health Care Ward and Associated Nursing Home
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- 1 December 2005
- journal article
- Published by American Society for Microbiology in Journal of Clinical Microbiology
- Vol. 43 (12), 6161-6163
- https://doi.org/10.1128/jcm.43.12.6161-6163.2005
Abstract
Our point-prevalence survey followed an outbreak of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in a long-term care facility and identified five MRSA strains, of which two possessed an outbreak genotype not encountered previously and three had another profile. All of them possessed SCC mec type V. Six methicillin-sensitive S. aureus strains were genotypically related to the epidemic strains.Keywords
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