Epidemiology of emerging methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in Denmark: a nationwide study in a country with low prevalence of MRSA infection.

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Published in J Clin Microbiol on April 01, 2005

Authors

Nuno A Faria1, Duarte C Oliveira, Henrik Westh, Dominique L Monnet, Anders R Larsen, Robert Skov, Hermínia de Lencastre

Author Affiliations

1: Laboratório de Genética Molecular, Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Oeiras, Portugal.

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