Prevalence of community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in patients with cystic fibrosis
Jennifer S Goodrich, Tameaka N Sutton-Shields, Alan Kerr, Joel P Wedd, Melissa B Miller, Peter H Gilligan, Jennifer S Goodrich, Tameaka N Sutton-Shields, Alan Kerr, Joel P Wedd, Melissa B Miller, Peter H Gilligan
Abstract
We prospectively determined the prevalence of community-associated Staphylococcus aureus in a large cystic fibrosis (CF) center between October 2005 and October 2007. We found that 2.7% (19/707) of the CF patients who had cultures during the study period were infected with this organism, representing 14% of the total methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus strains (n = 140) recovered from the patient population during the study period.
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