Correction, vol. 11, no. 6.In "Community-acquired Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus Methicillin-aminoglycoside resistant Staphylococcus aureus, MRSA An organism with multiple antibiotic resistances–eg, aminoglycosides, chloramphenicol, clindamycin, erythromycin, rifampin, tetracycline, , Uruguay" by Xiao Xue Ma et al., errors occurred on pages 973 and 974. The first sentence of the abstract should read as follows: A novel, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus clone clone, group of organisms, all of which are descended from a single individual through asexual reproduction, as in a pure cell culture of bacteria. Except for changes in the hereditary material that come about by mutation, all members of a clone are genetically (Uruguay clone) with a non multidrug-resistant phenotype phenotype (fē`nətīp'): see genetics. phenotype All the observable characteristics of an organism, such as shape, size, colour, and behaviour, that result from the interaction of its genotype (total genetic makeup) with caused a large outbreak, including 7 deaths, in Montevideo, Uruguay. The first sentence of the article should read as follows: Since the 1990s, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA MRSA Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. See MARSA. ) infections have been increasingly recognized in the community, and MRSA strains isolated from patients with community-associated cases have been called community-associated MRSA (CA-MRSA CA-MRSA Community Acquired Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus ). The first sentence of Figure 1 legend (p. 974) should read as follows: The monthly accumulation of cases of infections due to non-multidrug-resistant MRSA strains from January 2002 to October 2003. The corrected article appears online at http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/eid/ vol11no06/04-1059.htm We regret any confusion these errors may have caused. |
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