Cutaneous Community-associated Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus among All Skin and Soft-tissue Infections in Two Geographically Distant Pediatric Emergency Departments

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 35-40

  Hasty, Molly B ^a   Klasner, Ann ^a   Kness, Sean ^a   Denmark, T Kent ^a   Ellis, Don ^a   Herman, Martin I ^a   Brown, Lance ^a  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

Author keywords

abscess; cellulitis; emergency; furuncle

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; CEFAZOLIN; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLINDAMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; METICILLIN; NITROFURANTOIN; OXACILLIN; PENICILLIN G; RIFAMPICIN; SULTAMICILLIN; TETRACYCLINE; VANCOMYCIN;

ADOLESCENT; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CHILD; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; NEWBORN; PATIENT SELECTION; PEDIATRIC HOSPITAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN ABSCESS; SKIN INFECTION; SOFT TISSUE INFECTION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; UNITED STATES;

ABSCESS; ADOLESCENT; BUTTOCKS; CALIFORNIA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LEG; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SOFT TISSUE INFECTIONS; SOUTHEASTERN UNITED STATES; STAPHYLOCOCCAL SKIN INFECTIONS;

EID: 33845808710     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1197/j.aem.2006.08.008     Document Type: Article

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