Prevalence and demographics of methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus in culturable skin and soft tissue infections in an urban emergency department

BMC Emergency Medicine

Volumn 7, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Jacobus, Christian H ^a   Lindsell, Christopher J ^a   Leach, Sabrina D ^a   Fermann, Gregory J ^a   Kressel, Amy ^b   Rue, Laura E ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BODY MASS; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; PREVALENCE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL INTERCOURSE; SKIN ABSCESS; SKIN CULTURE; SKIN INFECTION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; URBAN AREA;

EID: 38049183163     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1471227X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-227X-7-19     Document Type: Article

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