Increased EMRSA-15 health-care worker colonization demonstrated in retrospective review of EMRSA hospital outbreaks

Background:Health care worker (HCW) colonization with methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is a documented cause of hospital outbreaks and contributes to ongoing transmission. At Royal Perth Hospital (RPH) it had been anecdotally noted that the increasing prevalence of EMRSA-15 appeare...

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Main Authors: Hart, J., Christiansen, Keryn, Lee, R., Heath, C., Coombs, Geoffrey, Robinson, James
Format: Journal Article
Published: BioMed Central Ltd. 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/45504