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Volume 11, Number 6, June 2005

Community-acquired Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, Uruguay

Xiao Xue Ma,* Antonio Galiana,† Walter Pedreira,†‡ Martin Mowszowicz,§ Inés Christophersen,† Silvia Machiavello,† Liliana Lope,† Sara Benaderet,‡ Fernanda Buela,‡ Walter Vicentino,‡ María Albini,¶ Olivier Bertaux,† Irene Constenla,† Homero Bagnulo,† Luis Llosa,§ Teruyo Ito,* and Keiichi Hiramatsu*
*Juntendo University, Tokyo, Japan; †Hospital Maciel, Montevideo, Uruguay; ‡Centro de Asistencia del Sindicato Médico del Uruguay, Montevideo, Uruguay; §Ministerio del Interior, Montevideo, Uruguay; and ¶Ministry of Public Health, Montevideo, Uruguay

 
 
Figure 1.
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Figure 1. The monthly accumulation of cases of infections due to non–multidrug-resistant MRSA strains from January 2002 to October 2003. Black blocks indicate numbers of strains that were isolated from patients in the public hospital (Hospital Maciel), white indicates strains from a private hospital (Centro de Asistencia del Sindicato Médico del Uruguay), and gray indicates strains from 2 prisons (Libertad and Comcar).

 

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