Three-year surveillance of community onset health care-associated Staphylococcus aureus infections in children

Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 349-353

  Hultén, Kristina G ^a,b   Kaplan, Sheldon L ^a,b   Gonzalez, Blanca E ^a   Hammerman, Wendy A ^a,b   Lamberth, Linda B ^b   Versalovic, James ^a,b   Mason Jr , Edward O ^a,b  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b TEXAS CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Health care associated; Methicillin resistant; Staphylococcus aureus; Surveillance

Indexed keywords

CLINDAMYCIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENE PRODUCT; PENICILLIN BINDING PROTEIN 2A;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CHILD; CHILD HEALTH CARE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; GENE CASSETTE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH SURVEY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RECORD; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; STUDENT T TEST; UNITED STATES;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; CROSS INFECTION; HUMANS; INFANT; METHICILLIN; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 33645552274     PISSN: 08913668     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.inf.0000207404.50143.1e     Document Type: Article

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