Fatal brain abscess due to community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus strain USA300

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 45, Issue 9, 2007, Pages

  Sifri, Costi D ^a   Park, Jennifer ^a   Helm, Gregory A ^a   Stemper, Mary E ^b   Shukla, Sanjay K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^b MARSHFIELD CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COTRIMOXAZOLE;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BRAIN ABSCESS; CASE REPORT; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; DRUG ABUSE; FEMALE; FURUNCULOSIS; HUMAN; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION;

ADULT; BRAIN ABSCESS; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; PRISONERS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 35348814290     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/522171     Document Type: Article

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