Transmission of Staphylococcus aureus between health-care workers, the environment, and patients in an intensive care unit: a longitudinal cohort study based on whole-genome sequencing
<strong>Background:</strong> Considerable efforts are made to prevent nosocomial transmission of Staphylococcus aureus. Healthcare-workers (HCWs) have been implicated in outbreaks but lack of evidence from non-outbreak situations means that routine HCW screening and S. aureus eradication...
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Elsevier
2016
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