Community-associated MRSA: A dangerous epidemic

Future Microbiology

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 457-459

  Otto, Michael ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; METICILLIN; MODULIN; PANTON VALENTINE LEUKOCIDIN; PENICILLIN G; STAPHYLOCOCCUS VACCINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; DRUG SYNTHESIS; EDITORIAL; EPIDEMIC; HUMAN; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SKIN INFECTION; SOFT TISSUE INFECTION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; VACCINATION;

BACTERIAL TOXINS; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EXOTOXINS; HUMANS; LEUKOCIDINS; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 35348874327     PISSN: 17460913     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2217/17460913.2.5.457     Document Type: Editorial

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