1. MRSA outbreak in a tertiary neonatal intensive care unit in Iceland
- Author
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Ásgeir Haraldsson, Jesper Larsen, Iris Kristinsdottir, Karl G. Kristinsson, Anders Rhod Larsen, Valtyr Thors, Thordur Thorkelsson, and Gunnsteinn Haraldsson
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0301 basic medicine ,Microbiology (medical) ,Male ,Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus ,Parents ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Neonatal intensive care unit ,Health Personnel ,030106 microbiology ,Iceland ,medicine.disease_cause ,Disease Outbreaks ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Risk Factors ,Intensive Care Units, Neonatal ,Medicine ,Humans ,030212 general & internal medicine ,Intensive care medicine ,Cross Infection ,Infection Control ,General Immunology and Microbiology ,Whole Genome Sequencing ,business.industry ,Transmission (medicine) ,Infant, Newborn ,Outbreak ,Infant ,General Medicine ,biochemical phenomena, metabolism, and nutrition ,Staphylococcal Infections ,bacterial infections and mycoses ,Bacterial Typing Techniques ,Infectious Diseases ,Staphylococcus aureus ,Multilocus sequence typing ,Female ,business ,Genome, Bacterial ,Multilocus Sequence Typing - Abstract
Introduction: Preventing the spread of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and understanding the pathophysiology and transmission is essential. This study describes an MRSA outbreak ...
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- 2019