Impending danger: Community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus

Journal of Pediatric Orthopaedics

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 701-702

  Hensinger, Robert N ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEUKOCIDIN; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

BACTERIAL ARTHRITIS; BACTERIAL INFECTION; EDITORIAL; FEMORAL VEIN; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HEMATOGENOUS OSTEOMYELITIS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LUNG EMBOLISM; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPLITEAL VEIN; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THROMBOPHLEBITIS; VASCULITIS;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; DNA, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; OSTEOMYELITIS; RISK FACTORS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 33750479510     PISSN: 02716798     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.bpo.0000246917.16370.a3     Document Type: Editorial

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