Panton-Valentine leukocidin-producing methicillin-sensitive Staphylococcus aureus as a cause for recurrent, contagious skin infections in young, healthy travelers returned from a tropical country: A new worldwide public health problem?

Journal of Travel Medicine

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 137-139

  Schleucher, Regina D ^a   Gaessler, Michael ^a   Knobloch, Juergen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEFUROXIME; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLINDAMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; METRONIDAZOLE; OXACILLIN; PANTON VALENTINE LEUKOCIDIN; PENICILLIN G; PSEUDOMONIC ACID; TETRACYCLINE; VANCOMYCIN;

ABSCESS; ABSCESS DRAINAGE; ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CASE REPORT; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CONJUNCTIVITIS; DRUG SENSITIVITY; HUMAN; MALE; METHICILLIN SENSITIVE STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; PATHOGENESIS; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; RECURRENT INFECTION; SKIN INFECTION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TOURISM; TRAVEL; TREATMENT DURATION; TROPICS; WOUND INFECTION;

ABSCESS; ADULT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; EXOTOXINS; FEMALE; FIJI; GERMANY; GHANA; HUMANS; LEUKOCIDINS; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; RECURRENCE; STAPHYLOCOCCAL SKIN INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

EID: 40849096157     PISSN: 11951982     EISSN: 17088305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1708-8305.2008.00194.x     Document Type: Article

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