Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infections in collegiate football players

Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise

Volumn 40, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1362-1367

  Bowers, Andrea L ^a   Huffman, G Russell ^a   Sennett, Brian J ^a,b  

^a HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b Penn Sports Medicine Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Communicable; Cutaneous; Infectious; Mrsa

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; CELLULITIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLLEGE; DATA ANALYSIS; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ELBOW; FOLLICULITIS; FOOTBALL; FOREARM; HUMAN; IMPETIGO; INFECTION RISK; KNEE; LEG; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS INFECTION; MORPHOLOGY; NECROTIZING FASCIITIS; SEASONAL VARIATION; SKIN ABSCESS; SKIN INFECTION; SKIN MANIFESTATION; SURGICAL DRAINAGE; ADULT; DRUG EFFECT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; UNIVERSITY;

ADULT; FOOTBALL; HUMANS; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; UNITED STATES; UNIVERSITIES;

EID: 58149357708     PISSN: 01959131     EISSN: 15300315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1249/MSS.0b013e31816f1534     Document Type: Article

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