Emergence of non-multiresistant methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus as the commonest pathogen causing skin infections in a rural Australian city

Journal of Infection

Volumn 56, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 393-394

  Pandey, Ramesh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PANTON VALENTINE LEUKOCIDIN;

ABORIGINE; AEROMONAS HYDROPHILA; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; AUSTRALIA; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDIASIS; COMMUNITY CARE; EMPIRICISM; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; NONHUMAN; OUTPATIENT CARE; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RURAL POPULATION; SKIN ABSCESS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; STREPTOCOCCUS MILLERI; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; AUSTRALIA; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; HUMANS; METHICILLIN; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; RURAL POPULATION; STAPHYLOCOCCAL SKIN INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 42649083307     PISSN: 01634453     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jinf.2008.01.048     Document Type: Letter

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