Clinical and Molecular Epidemiology of Community-Acquired Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Infections Among Children With Risk Factors for Health Care-Associated Infection

Abstract

CA-MRSA strains recovered from children with RF-HAI were phenotypically similar to those recovered from healthy children The absence of SCCmec type II or III MRSA among children with RF-HAI suggests that CA-MRSA strains might have become endemic within pediatric health care facilities.