Global implications of the emergence of community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in indigenous populations

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 46, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1871-1878

  Tong, Steven Y C ^a,b   McDonald, Malcolm I ^a   Holt, Deborah C ^a   Currie, Bart J ^a,b  

^a MENZIES SCHOOL OF HEALTH RESEARCH   (Australia)

^b ROYAL DARWIN HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ABORIGINE; AUSTRALIA; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; COMMUNITY; CROWDING; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOGRAPHY; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; HYGIENE; INDIGENOUS PEOPLE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYODERMA; REVIEW; SCABIES; CLASSIFICATION; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; DRUG EFFECT; ETHNIC AND RACIAL GROUPS; GENETICS; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; SOCIOECONOMICS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION;

AUSTRALIA; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; HUMANS; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; POPULATION GROUPS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 46249112762     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/588301     Document Type: Review

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