Routine Screening for Methicillin-ResistantStaphylococcus AureusAmong Patients Newly Admitted to an Acute Rehabilitation Unit
- 1 September 2002
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology
- Vol. 23 (9) , 516-519
- https://doi.org/10.1086/502099
Abstract
BACKGROUND. Following an outbreak of methicillin‐resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infection in our acute rehabilitation unit in 1987, all patients except...Keywords
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