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Clinical Pulmonary Medicine:

July 2008 - Volume 15 - Issue 4 - p 234

doi: 10.1097/CPM.0b013e31817e5bdb

Pulmonary Trends

Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus-Identifying the Problem Doesn't Solve It

Spiegler, Peter MD, FCCP

Abstract

Synopsis: The addition of active screening for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus did not affect the occurrence of methicillin-resistant S. aureus infections in a surgical population.

Source: Harbath S, Fankhauser C, Schrenzel J, et al. Universal screening for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus at hospital admission and nosocomial infection in surgical patients. JAMA. 2008;299:1149-1157.

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