Community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infection among healthy newborns - Chicago and Los Angeles County, 2004

Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report

Volumn 55, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 329-332

  Watson, J ^a   Jones, R C ^a   Cortes, C ^a   Gerber, S I ^a   Golash, R G ^b   Price, J ^b   Bancroft, E ^c   Mascola, L ^c   Gorwitz, R J ^d   Jernigan, D B ^d   James, L ^e   Nguyen, D M ^e  

^a CHICAGO DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b ILLINOIS DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c Los Angeles County Dept of Health Svcs   (United States)

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

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; CROSS INFECTION; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; NEWBORN; NURSERY; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; UNITED STATES;

CHICAGO; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; CROSS INFECTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; LOS ANGELES; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; NURSERIES, HOSPITAL; STAPHYLOCOCCAL SKIN INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 33645275238     PISSN: 01492195     EISSN: 1545861X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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