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Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation 2006 21(4):835-836; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl061
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© The Author [2006]. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of ERA-EDTA. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

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Let MRSA-positive patients live a normal life

Christine Geffers and Henning Rüden

Institute of Hygiene and Environmental Health, Charité – University Medicine, Heubnerweg 6, D 14059 Berlin, Germany

Correspondence and offprint requests to: Christine Geffers, Institute of Hygiene and Environmental Health, Charité – University Medicine, Heubnerweg 6, D 14059 Berlin, Germany. Email: christine.geffers@charite.de

Keywords: MRSA infections; ICU; preventive infections

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Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infections have represented a serious burden in the USA and in Japan for years [1,2]. The incidence of MRSA is especially high in intensive care units (ICUs). MRSA is also becoming more prevalent in Europe, but with significant differences in the frequency of MRSA between single countries [3]. Patient-to-patient transmission in healthcare settings, usually via contaminated hands, clothes, or equipment of healthcare workers, has been a major factor accounting for the increase in MRSA incidence and prevalence in acute care facilities. More and more patients become MRSA-positive, often causing harmless . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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