Severe community-onset infections in healthy individuals caused by community-acquired MRSA in an Italian teaching hospital, 2006-2008

J Hosp Infect. 2009 Jul;72(3):271-3. doi: 10.1016/j.jhin.2009.04.007. Epub 2009 May 28.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • Letter
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Bacterial Typing Techniques / methods
  • Cluster Analysis
  • Community-Acquired Infections / epidemiology*
  • Community-Acquired Infections / microbiology*
  • DNA Fingerprinting / methods
  • Genotype
  • Hospitals, Teaching
  • Humans
  • Infant
  • Italy / epidemiology
  • Male
  • Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus / classification
  • Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus / genetics
  • Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus / isolation & purification*
  • Middle Aged
  • Molecular Epidemiology
  • Staphylococcal Infections / drug therapy
  • Staphylococcal Infections / epidemiology*
  • Staphylococcal Infections / microbiology*