A clone of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus among professional football players

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 352, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 468-475

  Kazakova, Sophia V ^a,b   Hageman, Jeffrey C ^a   Matava, Matthew ^c   Srinivasan, Arjun ^a   Phelan, Larry ^d   Garfinkel, Bernard ^c,e   Boo, Thomas ^b   McAllister, Sigrid ^a   Anderson, Jim ^f   Jensen, Bette ^a   Dodson, Doug ^d   Lonsway, David ^a   McDougal, Linda K ^a   Arduino, Matthew ^a   Fraser, Victoria J ^c   Killgore, George ^a   Tenover, Fred C ^a   Cody, Sara ^g   Jernigan, Daniel B ^a  

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

^b CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d MO Dept of Hlth and Sr Services   (United States)

^e BJC Medical Group   (United States)

^f St Louis Rams Prof Football Team   (United States)

^g Office of Disease Control   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEUKOCIDIN;

BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BODY MASS; CLONE; CLONING; FOOTBALL; GENE CASSETTE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; NOSE SMEAR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; TOXIN ANALYSIS; WOUND;

ABSCESS; ADULT; CLONE CELLS; COHORT STUDIES; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; FOOTBALL; GELS; HUMANS; HYDROTHERAPY; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; NOSE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SKIN; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL SKIN INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 19944431830     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa042859     Document Type: Review

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