Emerging infections with community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in outpatients at an Army Community Hospital

Surgical Infections

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 87-92

  Beilman, Greg J ^a,b,c,e   Sandifer, Gerald ^c   Skarda, David ^a   Jensen, Bette ^d   McAllister, Sigrid ^d   Killgore, George ^d   Srinivasan, Arjun ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b NORTH MEMORIAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c Moncrief Army Community Hospital   (United States)

^d NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^e NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLINDAMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ENTEROTOXIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; LEUKOCIDIN; LEVOFLOXACIN; METICILLIN; NITROFURANTOIN; OXACILLIN; RIFAMPICIN; TETRACYCLINE; TOXIC SHOCK SYNDROME TOXIN 1; VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CLASSIFICATION; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CODE; HOSPITAL LABORATORY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR TYPING; NONHUMAN; OUTPATIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SOFT TISSUE INFECTION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; TOXIN ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES;

COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; HOSPITALS, MILITARY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; OUTPATIENTS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SOFT TISSUE INFECTIONS; SOUTH CAROLINA; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 19044392457     PISSN: 10962964     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/sur.2005.6.87     Document Type: Article

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