High prevalence of MRSA in household contacts.

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Published in Scand J Infect Dis on January 01, 2007

Authors

P J Hugo Johansson1, Eva B Gustafsson, Håkan Ringberg

Author Affiliations

1: Hospital Infection Control Unit, Clinical Microbiology and Immunology, Lund University Hospital, Lund, Sweden. hugo.johansson@skane.se

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