Contamination of public buses with MRSA in Lisbon, Portugal: a possible transmission route of major MRSA clones within the community.
In a previous study we have shown that public buses in Oporto, the second largest city in Portugal, were highly contaminated with MRSA. Here we describe the results of a similar study performed in another urban area of Portugal-Lisbon, the capital. Between May 2011 and May 2012, hand touched surface...
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Auteurs principaux: | Teresa Conceição, Fernanda Diamantino, Céline Coelho, Hermínia de Lencastre, Marta Aires-de-Sousa |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2013
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