MRSA: Deadly Super Bug or Just Another Staph?

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 299-302

  Talan, David A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSCESS; AMBULATORY CARE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CELLULITIS; EDITORIAL; EMERGENCY WARD; FEVER; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH SURVEY; HOMELESSNESS; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MORBIDITY; NECROTIZING FASCIITIS; NONHUMAN; OSTEOMYELITIS; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PATHOGENESIS; PHYSICIAN; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYOMYOSITIS; SKIN ABSCESS; SKIN INFECTION; SOFT TISSUE INFECTION; TOXIC SHOCK SYNDROME; UNITED STATES; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; INCIDENCE; MICROBIOLOGY; NOTE; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION;

COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; SOFT TISSUE INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL SKIN INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 41149164274     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2007.12.005     Document Type: Editorial

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