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. 2009 Apr;47(4):1231-3.
doi: 10.1128/JCM.00255-09. Epub 2009 Feb 18.

Prevalence of community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in patients with cystic fibrosis

Jennifer S Goodrich  1 , Tameaka N Sutton-Shields, Alan Kerr, Joel P Wedd, Melissa B Miller, Peter H Gilligan
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Prevalence of community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in patients with cystic fibrosis

Jennifer S Goodrich et al. J Clin Microbiol. 2009 Apr.

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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