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SUBMITTER: Adam HJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2812162 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Adam Heather J HJ Louie Lisa L Watt Christine C Gravel Denise D Bryce Elizabeth E Loeb Mark M Matlow Anne A McGeer Allison A Mulvey Michael R MR Simor Andrew E AE
Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy 20091130 2
We describe the epidemiology of heterogeneously resistant Staphylococcus aureus (hVISA) identified in Canadian hospitals between 1995 and 2006. hVISA isolates were confirmed by the population analysis profiling-area under the curve method. Only 25 hVISA isolates (1.3% of all isolates) were detected. hVISA isolates were more likely to have been health care associated (odds ratio [OR], 5.1; 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.9 to 14.2) and to have been recovered from patients hospitalized in central ...[more]