Newly identified risk factors for MRSA carriage in The Netherlands.

To elucidate new risk factors for MRSA carriers without known risk factors (MRSA of unknown origin; MUO). These MUO carriers are neither pre-emptively screened nor isolated as normally dictated by the Dutch Search & Destroy policy, thus resulting in policy failure.We performed a prospective case...

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Main Authors: W S N Lekkerkerk, A Haenen, M A B van der Sande, T Leenstra, S de Greeff, A Timen, A Tjon-A-Tsien, J H Richardus, N van de Sande-Bruinsma, M C Vos
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5708665?pdf=render