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Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis
; 74(4): 420-2, 2012 Dec.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-23021063
ABSTRACT
Fifty-one of 925 patients screened for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) upon admission to a surgical unit were MRSA carriers; 15 were classified as community- and 36 as hospital-associated-MRSA. Fourteen of 22 isolates typed by molecular methods belonged to the European clone ST80-IVc, 3 of which exhibited resistance to ≥3 non-ß-lactam antibiotics.