Is methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus more virulent than methicillin-susceptible S. aureus? A comparative cohort study of British patients with nosocomial infection and bacteremia.

M, Melzer; SJ, Eykyn; WR, Gransden; S, Chinn

doi:10.1086/379321

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Is methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus more virulent than methicillin-susceptible S. aureus? A comparative cohort study of British patients with nosocomial infection and bacteremia.

Published in Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America • Nov 6, 2003

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Melzer M

Eykyn SJ

Gransden WR

Abstract

Staphylococcus aureus is the most common cause of hospital-acquired bacteremia. From 1995 through 2000, data on age, sex, patient specialty at time of first bacteremia, primary and secondary sites of infection, delay in initiating antimicrobial therapy, and patient outcome were prospectively recorde...

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