Clinical and molecular epidemiology of community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infections among children with risk factors for health care-associated infection 2001-2003

Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 343-348

  Zaoutis, Theoklis E ^a,b,c   Toltzis, Philip ^e   Chu, Jaclyn ^a   Abrams, Tara ^d   Dul, Michael ^e   Kim, Jason ^a   McGowan, Karin L ^a,b   Coffin, Susan E ^a,b  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

^b Department of Pediatrics ^*  (United States)

^c Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^e CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus; Pediatrics

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLINDAMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENE PRODUCT; GENTAMICIN; LEUKOCIDIN; PENICILLIN BINDING PROTEIN 2A; TETRACYCLINE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CHILD; CHILD HEALTH CARE; CHRONIC DISEASE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; GENE CASSETTE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SKIN INFECTION; SOFT TISSUE INFECTION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; CROSS INFECTION; EPIDEMIOLOGY, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; INFANT; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; RISK FACTORS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 33645534701     PISSN: 08913668     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.inf.0000207403.67197.cc     Document Type: Article

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