Volume 8, Number 9—September 2002

Research

Community-Acquired Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Institutionalized Adults with Developmental Disabilities1

Abraham Borer*, Jacob Gilad*, Pablo Yagupsky*, Nechama Peled*, Nurith Porat*, Ronit Trefler*, Hannah Shprecher-Levy†, Klaris Riesenberg*, Miriam Shipman*, and Francisc Schlaeffer* 

Author affiliations: *Soroka University Medical Center and the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel; †Carmel Medical Center, Haifa, Israel;

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Figure 1. Systemic antibiotic use agents administered to infected residents in Building 15 between March and December 1997. Grids represent beta-lactam agents

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¹This work has been presented in part at the 38th Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (ICAAC), San Diego, California, USA, September 24–27, 1998.

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