Community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus skin and soft tissue infections at a public hospital: Do public housing and incarceration amplify transmission?

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 167, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1026-1033

  Hota, Bala ^a,b   Ellenbogen, Charlotte ^a   Hayden, Mary K ^a   Aroutcheva, Alla ^a,b   Rice, Thomas W ^b   Weinstein, Robert A ^a,b  

^a RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Jr Hospital of Cook County   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTION RISK; LABORATORY TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MICROBIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RISK FACTOR; SKIN INFECTION; SOFT TISSUE; SOFT TISSUE INFECTION; TISSUE CULTURE;

ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHICAGO; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, PUBLIC; HUMANS; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRISONS; PUBLIC HOUSING; RISK FACTORS; SOFT TISSUE INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL SKIN INFECTIONS;

EID: 34249740849     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: 15383679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinte.167.10.1026     Document Type: Article

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