Community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, Uruguay

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 973-976

  Xiao, Xue Ma ^a   Galiana, Antonio ^b   Pedreira, Walter ^b,c   Mowszowicz, Martin ^d   Christophersen, Inés ^b   Machiavello, Silvia ^b   Lope, Liliana ^b   Benaderet, Sara ^c   Buela, Fernanda ^c   Vicentino, Walter ^c   Albini, María ^e   Bertaux, Olivier ^b   Constenla, Irene ^b   Bagnulo, Homero ^b   Llosa, Luis ^d   Ito, Teruyo ^a   Hiramatsu, Keiichi ^a  

^a JUNTENDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HOSPITAL MACIEL   (Uruguay)

^c Medical Outpatient Clinic   (Uruguay)

^d Ministerio del Interior   (Uruguay)

^e Ministry of Public Health Uruguay   (Uruguay)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEUKOCIDIN;

ABSCESS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATOPIC DERMATITIS; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BONE AND JOINT INFECTIONS; CATHETER INFECTION; CELLULITIS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID SHUNTING; CNA GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; HIDRADENITIS; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MOLECULAR CLONING; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; MYOSITIS; PHENOTYPE; PNEUMONIA; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; SEPSIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; URUGUAY; WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 21144439150     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1106.041059     Document Type: Article

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