Preben Aavitsland

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Preben Aavitsland er lege, fagdirektør ved Folkehelseinstituttet og professor ved Pandemisenteret ved Universitetet i Bergen

Articles by Preben Aavitsland

Should children adopted from abroad be screened for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus?

Petter Elstrøm,
Bjørn Iversen,
Preben Aavitsland

31.01.2008: Staphylococcus aureus can cause a wide variety of infections - anything from superficial harmless skin infections to life-threatening invasive ones (1). Resistance to antibiotics is a global public health problem, and the most frequently identified resistant bacterium in Europe and many other places...