Successful termination of a furunculosis outbreak due to lukS-lukF-positive, methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus in a German village by stringent decolonization, 2002-2005

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2007

This report describes a successful strategy for terminating the transmission of epidemic strains of S. aureus among a nonhospitalized population.

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Authors	Wiese-Posselt M;Heuck D;Draeger A;Mielke M;Witte W;Ammon A;Hamouda O;;
Journal	Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America
Year	2007
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URL	http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17479931
Keywords	germany National Center for Biotechnology Information NCBI NLM MEDLINE humans pubmed abstract nih national institutes of health national library of medicine treatment outcome adult female male adolescent aged middle aged Child Infant newborn preschool risk factors 80 and over Retrospective Studies Bacterial drug resistance Cohort Studies microbial sensitivity tests staphylococcus aureus / drug effects staphylococcus aureus / isolation & purification staphylococcus aureus / genetics bacterial proteins / genetics anti-bacterial agents / therapeutic use* disease outbreaks / prevention & control* pmid:17479931 doi:10.1086/517503 miriam wiese-posselt dagmar heuck osamah hamouda furunculosis / drug therapy* furunculosis / epidemiology* furunculosis / microbiology leukocidins / genetics methicillin resistance mupirocin / administration & dosage mupirocin / therapeutic use*

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