Primary bacterial infections of the skin and soft tissues changes in epidemiology and management

Clinical Pediatric Emergency Medicine

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 246-255

  Allen, Coburn H ^a   Patel, Binita ^a   Endom, Erin E ^a,b  

^a TEXAS CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Antibiotic resistance; Community acquired methicillin; Soft tissue skin infections; Staphylococcus aureus

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; AZITHROMYCIN; BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; CEFALEXIN; CEFDINIR; CEFOTAXIME; CEFTRIAXONE; CEPHALOSPORIN; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLARITHROMYCIN; CLINDAMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DICLOXACILLIN; DOXYCYCLINE; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; LINEZOLID; MACROLIDE; METICILLIN; NAFCILLIN; OXACILLIN; PENICILLIN G; PSEUDOMONIC ACID; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; RIFAMPICIN; STEROID; SULFADIAZINE SILVER; TIMENTIN; UNINDEXED DRUG; VANCOMYCIN;

ABSCESS DRAINAGE; AEROMONAS; AEROMONAS HYDROPHILA; ANTHRAX; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BLOOD CULTURE; BURKHOLDERIA CEPACIA; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CELLULITIS; CHILD; CHILD HEALTH CARE; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; CITROBACTER; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; DERMATITIS; ECTHYMA; EMERGENCY WARD; ENTEROBACTER; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; ERYSIPELAS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FUSARIUM; GRAM STAINING; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE TYPE B; HUMAN; IMPETIGO; INDIVIDUALIZATION; KLEBSIELLA; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MORAXELLA; MORGANELLA; MUCOR; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; RHIZOPUS; SERRATIA MARCESCENS; SKIN ABSCESS; SKIN INFECTION; SOFT TISSUE INFECTION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STENOTROPHOMONAS MALTOPHILIA; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS GROUP A; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; XANTHOMONAS;

EID: 12444311786     PISSN: 15228401     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cpem.2004.08.004     Document Type: Article

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