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Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Strain USA300 Is Prevalent among Hospital-Onset Cases in an Urban Canadian Setting

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Amanda Wilmer ,
Elisa Lloyd-Smith ,
Marc Romney ,
Linda Hoang ,
Mark Hull  and
Sylvie Champagne
Amanda Wilmer*
Affiliation:
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Elisa Lloyd-Smith
Affiliation:
Infection Prevention and Control, St. Paul's Hospital, Providence Health Care, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Marc Romney
Affiliation:
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Infection Prevention and Control, St. Paul's Hospital, Providence Health Care, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Division of Medical Microbiology, St. Paul's Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Linda Hoang
Affiliation:
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Division of Mycology and Bacteriology, British Columbia Centre for Disease Control, Public Health Microbiology and Reference Laboratory, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Mark Hull
Affiliation:
Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Sylvie Champagne
Affiliation:
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Division of Medical Microbiology, St. Paul's Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
*
Medical Microbiology Laboratory, St. Paul's Hospital, 1081 Burrard Street, Vancouver, British Columbia V6Z 1Y6, Canada (avwilmer@gmail.com)
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 32 , Issue 12 , December 2011 , pp. 1227 - 1229
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2011

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