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Volume 11, Number 10, October 2005

Isolate Removal Methods and Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus Surveillance

Fenfang Li,* Tracy L. Ayers,† Sarah Y. Park,† F. DeWolfe Miller,* Ralph MacFadden,† Michele Nakata,† Myra Ching Lee,† and Paul V. Effler†
*University of Hawaii School of Medicine, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA; and †Hawaii Department of Health, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA

 
 
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Figure 1. Effect of duplicate isolate removal strategies on the number of Staphylococcus aureus isolates and percentage susceptible to oxacillin for all patients in Hawaii, 2002. The 95% confidence interval for the proportion is shown in brackets. NR, no removal; MR, most resistant; MS, most susceptible; N, NCCLS algorithm; C, Cerner algorithm; the number indicates the days in the analysis period.

 

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