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Unusual skin sepsis due to a strain of multiresistant Staphylococcus aureus
  1. Joy Harrison,
  2. R. W. Lacey
  1. Departments of Microbiology, Frenchay Hospital and University of Bristol

    Abstract

    A strain of Staphylococcus aureus resistant to as many as nine distinct antibiotics has shown unusally high virulence as indicated by its ability to cause an epidemic of furunculosis amongst hospital nurses.

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