Five cases of bacterial endocarditis after furunculosis and the ongoing saga of community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infections

Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 38, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 702-707

  Bahrain, Michelle ^a   Vasiliades, Minas ^b   Wolff, Marcos ^c   Younus, Faheem ^c  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b Franklin Square Hospital Center   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEFALEXIN; CEFTRIAXONE; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLINDAMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ERYTHROMYCIN; GADOLINIUM; GENTAMICIN; LEUKOCIDIN; LINEZOLID; METRONIDAZOLE; MOXIFLOXACIN; NAFCILLIN; PSEUDOMONIC ACID; RIFAMPICIN; TETRACYCLINE; VANCOMYCIN; WARFARIN;

ABSCESS; ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BLOOD CULTURE; BRAIN INFARCTION; CAVERNOUS SINUS THROMBOSIS; CELLULITIS; CHILL; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMMUNITY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; DECORTICATION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; EPIDURAL ABSCESS; FACE ERYTHEMA; FEMALE; FEVER; FURUNCULOSIS; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; MORBIDITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PLEURA EFFUSION; PLEURA EMPYEMA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; REVIEW; SEPSIS; SKIN CULTURE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; SYSTOLIC HEART MURMUR; TACHYCARDIA; THORAX PAIN; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; UNITED STATES; VITAL SIGN;

ADULT; ENDOCARDITIS, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; FURUNCULOSIS; HUMANS; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 33746615553     PISSN: 00365548     EISSN: 16511980     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00365540500447150     Document Type: Review

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