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| Brandi LimbagoSummaryAffiliation: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Country: USA Publications
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Characterization of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolates collected in 2005 and 2006 from patients with invasive disease: a population-based analysisBrandi Limbago
Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
J Clin Microbiol 47:1344-51. 2009..6%), in addition to beta-lactam agents. This collection provides a reference collection of MRSA isolates associated with invasive disease, collected in 2005 and 2006 in the United States, for future comparison and ongoing studies...
Complete restriction of fluoroquinolone use to control an outbreak of Clostridium difficile infection at a community hospitalAlexander J Kallen
Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion, National Center for Preparedness, Detection, and Control of Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 30:264-72. 2009....
Antimicrobial-resistant pathogens associated with healthcare-associated infections: summary of data reported to the National Healthcare Safety Network at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2009-2010Dawn M Sievert
Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion, National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, USA
Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 34:1-14. 2013..To describe antimicrobial resistance patterns for healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) reported to the National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) during 2009-2010...
Prevalence of beta-lactam nonsusceptible Gram-negative bacilli and use and interpretation of current susceptibility breakpoints: a survey of infectious disease physiciansAlexander J Kallen
Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USA
Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis 71:316-9. 2011..Many reported encountering resistant Enterobacteriaceae; respondents generally favored a more conservative interpretation of antimicrobial susceptibility results...
Comparison of seven techniques for typing international epidemic strains of Clostridium difficile: restriction endonuclease analysis, pulsed-field gel electrophoresis, PCR-ribotyping, multilocus sequence typing, multilocus variable-number tandem-repeat anGeorge Killgore
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
J Clin Microbiol 46:431-7. 2008..All techniques appear to be capable of detecting outbreak strains, but only REA and MLVA showed sufficient discrimination to distinguish strains from different outbreaks...
Clostridium difficile in food and domestic animals: a new foodborne pathogen?L Hannah Gould
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Clin Infect Dis 51:577-82. 2010..This review summarizes the available data on C. difficile in animals and food and discusses the potential for foodborne transmission of this pathogen...
