Impact of combined low-level mupirocin and genotypic chlorhexidine resistance on persistent methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus carriage after decolonization therapy: a case-control study
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Clinical infectious diseases, vol. 52, no. 12, p. 1422-1430Publication date
2011Abstract
Keywords
- Administration, Topical
- Aged
- Aged, 80 and over
- Anti-Infective Agents, Local/administration & dosage/pharmacology
- Carrier State/drug therapy/microbiology
- Case-Control Studies
- Chlorhexidine/administration & dosage/pharmacology
- DNA, Bacterial/genetics
- Drug Resistance, Bacterial
- Female
- Genes, Bacterial
- Genotype
- Humans
- Male
- Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus/drug effects/isolation & purification
- Middle Aged
- Mupirocin/administration & dosage/pharmacology
- Polymerase Chain Reaction/methods
- Staphylococcal Infections/drug therapy/microbiology
- Treatment Outcome
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Citation (ISO format)
LEE, Andie S. et al. Impact of combined low-level mupirocin and genotypic chlorhexidine resistance on persistent methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus carriage after decolonization therapy: a case-control study. In: Clinical infectious diseases, 2011, vol. 52, n° 12, p. 1422–1430. doi: 10.1093/cid/cir233
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Identifiers
- PID : unige:25014
- DOI : 10.1093/cid/cir233
- PMID : 21628482
