Environmental Contamination Due to Methicillin-Resistant <i>Staphylococcus aureus:</i> Possible Infection Control Implications

M. Boyce, John; Potter-Bynoe, Gail; Chenevert, Claire; King, Thomas

doi:10.1086/502213

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Environmental Contamination Due to Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus: Possible Infection Control Implications

Published in Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology • Sep 1, 1997

Authors:

John M. Boyce

Gail Potter-Bynoe

Claire Chenevert

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Infection control programs were created three decades ago to control antibiotic-resistant healthcare-associated infections, but there has been little evidence of control in most facilities. After long, steady increases of MRSA and VRE infections in NNIS System hospitals, the Society for ...

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Infection control

Medicine

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