Pediatric pneumonia death caused by community-acquired methicillin- resistant Staphylococcus aureus, Japan

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 14, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1312-1314

  Ito, Takashi ^a,b   Iijima, Makiko ^a   Fukushima, Takayoshi ^a   Nonoyama, Masato ^a   Ishii, Masahiro ^a   Baranovich, Tatiana ^b   Otsuka, Taketo ^b   Takano, Tomomi ^b   Yamamoto, Tatsuo ^b  

^a KITASATO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b NIIGATA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICAL AND DENTAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTITHROMBIN III; CEFOTAXIME; FLOMOXEF; MEROPENEM; NAFAMSTAT MESILATE; PANTON VALENTINE LEUKOCIDIN; STAPHYLOCOCCUS PROTEIN A; SULTAMICILLIN; ULINASTATIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; ATELECTASIS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BLOOD CULTURE; CASE REPORT; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR CLOTTING; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INTUBATION; JAPAN; LETTER; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; OXYGEN BREATHING; PATHOGENESIS; PLEURA EFFUSION; PNEUMOTHORAX; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SEPTIC SHOCK; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; DEATH; HUMANS; INFANT; JAPAN; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 48749117976     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1408.070391     Document Type: Letter

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