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Universal Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) Screening: Comparison of Anatomic Screening Sites for Patients with High and Low Prevalence of MRSA Carriage

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Angela Chow ,
Mar-Kyaw Win ,
Chia-Siong Wong  and
Yee-Sin Leo
Angela Chow*
Affiliation:
Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Communicable Disease Centre, Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles, California Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Mar-Kyaw Win
Affiliation:
Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Communicable Disease Centre, Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore
Chia-Siong Wong
Affiliation:
Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Communicable Disease Centre, Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Yee-Sin Leo
Affiliation:
Department of Infectious Diseases, Communicable Disease Centre, Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore Department of Medicine, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore
*
Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Communicable Disease Centre, Tan Tock Seng Hospital, 11 Jalan Tan Tock Seng, Singapore 308433, Singapore (angelaclp@ucla.edu)
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Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 33 , Issue 3 , March 2012 , pp. 315 - 317
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2012

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