Widespread Environmental Contamination Associated With Patients With Diarrhea and Methicillin-ResistantStaphylococcusaureus Colonization of the Gastrointestinal Tract
Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology2007Vol. 28(10), pp. 1142–1147
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Abstract
Patients who have diarrheal stools and heavy gastrointestinal colonization with MRSA are associated with significantly greater environmental MRSA contamination than patients without MRSA in their stool, and they are likely to be the source of that contamination.
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