Lap Dancer's Lament: An Occupational Hazard Related to Community-Associated Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 116-117

  Roberts, James Robert ^a  

^a Mercy Hospital of Philadelphia   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; CLAVULANIC ACID; CLINDAMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; LINAZOLID; QUINOLONE DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VANCOMYCIN; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CASE REPORT; DANCING; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; LETTER; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN ABSCESS; SKIN INFECTION; SOFT TISSUE INFECTION;

ABSCESS; ADULT; BUTTOCKS; DANCING; FEMALE; HUMANS; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; SOFT TISSUE INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS;

EID: 33845792433     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2006.08.034     Document Type: Letter

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