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See Latest ArticlesUsefulness of Weekly Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Screening
Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology, 10/06/09
Rymzhanova R et al. – The results suggest that weekly MRSA screening allows the detection of 56.1% of all cases of hospital–acquired MRSA carriage. These cases would have remained undetected had admission screening and clinical sampling been the only types of surveillance in place.
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