title: Molecular Epidemiology of Recurrent Cutaneous Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Infections in Children.
abstract: We assessed the relatedness by repetitive-sequence polymerase chain reaction of isolates obtained from children with recurrent methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus cutaneous infections over 6 years. Ninety percent of the cases could be attributed to recurrence of the same strain type, suggesting that optimized decolonization methods in children might effectively prevent recurrent infection.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatrics.
authors.forename: Duha
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Al-Zubeidi
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatrics Department of Pathology & Immunology.
authors.forename: Carey-Ann D
authors.initials: CA
authors.lastname: Burnham
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatrics.
authors.forename: Patrick G
authors.initials: PG
authors.lastname: Hogan
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology & Immunology.
authors.forename: Rachel
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Collins
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatrics Department of Molecular Microbiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri.
authors.forename: David A
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Hunstad
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatrics.
authors.forename: Stephanie A
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Fritz
keywords: Staphylococcus aureus; decolonization; repetitive-sequence polymerase chain reaction; skin and soft-tissue infection
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