Foreword: Current status of MRSA infections in neonatal medicine in Japan

Pediatrics International

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 221-222

  Takahashi, Naoto ^a,b  

^a JICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

MRSA; Newborn infants; NICU; NTED; TSST 1

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEFAZOLIN; CEFMETAZOLE; CEFOTIAM; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ERYTHROMYCIN; FLOMOXEF; GENTAMICIN; IMIPENEM; METICILLIN; MINOCYCLINE; OFLOXACIN; PENICILLIN G; TOXIC SHOCK SYNDROME TOXIN 1; VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; DISEASE CARRIER; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTION RATE; JAPAN; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; NEONATAL TOXIC SHOCK SYNDROME LIKE EXANTHEMATOUS DISEASE; NEWBORN; NEWBORN INFECTION; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; TOXIC SHOCK SYNDROME;

HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; JAPAN; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS;

EID: 0037907352     PISSN: 13288067     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1442-200X.2003.01702.x     Document Type: Editorial

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