Guidelines for the prevention and management of community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus: A perspective for Canadian health care practitioners.

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Published in Can J Infect Dis Med Microbiol on September 01, 2006

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Michelle Barton1, Michael Hawkes, Dorothy Moore, John Conly, Lindsay Nicolle, Upton Allen, Nora Boyd, Joanne Embree, Liz Van Horne, Nicole Le Saux, Susan Richardson, Aideen Moore, Dat Tran, Valerie Waters, Mary Vearncombe, Kevin Katz, J Scott Weese, John Embil, Marianna Ofner-Agostini, E Lee Ford-Jones, Writing Group of the Expert Panel of Canadian Infectious Disease, Infection Prevention and Control, and Public Health Specialists

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1: Divisions of Infectious Diseases and.

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