Diversity of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) strains isolated from inpatients of 30 hospitals in Orange County, California.

Diversity of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) strains isolated from inpatients of 30 hospitals in Orange County, California.

There is a need for a regional assessment of the frequency and diversity of MRSA to determine major circulating clones and the extent to which community and healthcare MRSA reservoirs have mixed. We conducted a prospective cohort study of inpatients in Orange County, California, systematically colle...

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Main Authors: Lyndsey O Hudson, Courtney R Murphy, Brian G Spratt, Mark C Enright, Kristen Elkins, Christopher Nguyen, Leah Terpstra, Adrijana Gombosev, Diane Kim, Paul Hannah, Lydia Mikhail, Richard Alexander, Douglas F Moore, Susan S Huang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3634754?pdf=render

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