Staphylococcus aureus skin/soft-tissue infections: The impact of SCCmec type and Panton-Valentine leukocidin

Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 40, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 601-606

  Jahamy, Houssein ^a   Ganga, Roopa ^a   Al Raiy, Basel ^a   Shemes, Stephen ^a   Nagappan, Vijayalakshmi ^a   Sharma, Mamta ^a   Riederer, Kathleen ^a   Khatib, Riad ^a  

^a ST JOHN HOSPITAL AND MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PANTON VALENTINE LEUKOCIDIN;

ABSCESS; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BLOOD SAMPLING; COMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MICROBIOLOGY; MONITORING; MORTALITY; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; NONHUMAN; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCREENING; SKIN INFECTION; SOFT TISSUE INFECTION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BACTERIAL TOXINS; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; CROSS INFECTION; EXOTOXINS; FEMALE; GENES, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; LATEX FIXATION TESTS; LEUKOCIDINS; MALE; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOFT TISSUE INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL SKIN INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 48249119997     PISSN: 00365548     EISSN: 16511980     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00365540701877312     Document Type: Article

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