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T1  - Import of community-associated, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus to Europe through skin and soft-tissue infection in intercontinental travellers, 2011-2016 
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UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10138/313109 
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A1  - StaphTrav Network; Nurjadi, D.; Fleck, R.; Kantele, A.; Zanger, P. 
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Y1  - 2019 
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AB  - Objectives: Recently, following import by travel and migration, epidemic community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA) has caused nosocomial outbreaks in Europe, sometimes with a fatal outcome. We describe clinico-epidemiological characteristics of CA-MRSA detected by the European Network for the Surveillance of imported S. aureus (www.staphtrav.eu) from May 2011 to November 2016. Methods: Sentinel surveillance at 13 travel clinics enrolling patients with travel-asso... 
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KW  - Communicable disease control; Communicable diseases (emerging); Cross-sectional studies; Emerging; Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus; Panton-Valentine leucocidin sentinel surveillance; Staphylococcal skin infections; Travel medicine; VALENTINE LEUKOCIDIN GENES; MULTIPLEX PCR ASSAY; MRSA USA300; OUTBREAK; TRANSMISSION; PREVALENCE; SPREAD; CLONE; DISCRIMINATION; CARRIAGE; 3111 Biomedicine; 1183 Plant biology, microbiology, virology 
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