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1: Clin Infect Dis. 2007 Feb 1;44(3):410-3. Epub 2007 Jan 2.Click here to read Links
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Clin Infect Dis. 2007 Jun 15;44(12):1664; author reply 1664-5.

Heterosexual transmission of community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.

Cook HA, Furuya EY, Larson E, Vasquez G, Lowy FD.

Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032, USA.

Heterosexual transmission of community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus has not been documented. As part of a survey conducted in northern Manhattan, we encountered 3 households in which heterosexual transmission was responsible for new community-associated methicillin-resistant S. aureus infection. The vaginal and inguinal isolates obtained from the sexual partners were USA 300. This report documents an important and previously unrecognized means of community-associated methicillin-resistant S. aureus colonization and transmission for these potentially invasive strains.

PMID: 17205449 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

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