TY - JOUR AU - Tattevin, Pierre AU - Diep, Binh An AU - Jula, Michael AU - Perdreau-Remington, Françoise T1 - Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus USA300 Clone in Long-Term Care Facility T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2009 VL - 15 IS - 6 SP - 953 SN - 1080-6059 AB - We performed a longitudinal analysis of 661 methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) isolates obtained from patients in a long-term care facility. USA300 clone increased from 11.3% of all MRSA isolates in 2002 to 64.0% in 2006 (p<0.0001) and was mostly recovered from skin or skin structures (64.3% vs. 27.0% for non-USA300 MRSA; p<0.0001). KW - Staphylococcus aureus KW - staphylococci KW - bacteria KW - antimicrobial resistance KW - long-term care facility KW - epidemiology KW - USA300 KW - California KW - USA KW - dispatch KW - United States DO - 10.3201/eid1506.080195 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/15/6/08-0195_article ER - End of Reference