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A Cluster of Community-Acquired Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Infections in Hospital Security Guards
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 January 2015
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We investigated a cluster of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus soft-tissue infections in 5 security guards employed in a hospital emergency department. An epidemiologic investigation and molecular subtyping of isolates revealed that the source was a patient and that a community-acquired methicillin-resistant S. aureus strain (USA-300) was transmitted to healthcare workers through physical contact.
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