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February 10, 2017Annals of Surgery

Can Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus Silently Travel From the Gut to the Wound and Cause Postoperative Infection? Modeling the “Trojan Horse Hypothesis”

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Immune cells as Trojan horses carrying gut-derived MRSA may be a plausible mechanism of SSIs in the absence of direct contamination.

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Krezalek et al. (2017) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69dc6b6f4264bdb3843594de https://doi.org/10.1097/sla.0000000000002173

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