Volume 11, Number 6, June 2005

Community-associated Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Hospital Nursery and Maternity Units

Simona Bratu,* Antonella Eramo,† Robert Kopec,‡ Elizabeth Coughlin,‡ Monica Ghitan,‡ Robert Yost,‡ Edward K. Chapnick,‡ David Landman,* and John Quale*
*State University of New York-Downstate, Brooklyn, New York, USA; †Long Island College Hospital, Brooklyn, New York, USA; and ‡Maimonides Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York, USA

Figure 1. Time course of hospitalizations and onset of methicillin-resistant Stpahylococcus aureus illness during the outbreak at Hospital A. Solid bars represent period of hospitalization; arrows represent onset of clinical infection.

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