Community-associated meticillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus infections: Epidemiology, recognition and management

Drugs

Volumn 69, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 693-716

  Patel, Mukesh ^a,b  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^b BIRMINGHAM VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEFTAROLINE; CEFTAZIDIME; CEFTOBIPROLE; CLINDAMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; CREATINE KINASE; DALBAVANCIN; DALFOPRISTIN PLUS QUINUPRISTIN; DAPTOMYCIN; DOXYCYCLINE; ICLAPRIM; LINEZOLID; MINOCYCLINE; ORITAVANCIN; PANTON VALENTINE LEUKOCIDIN; RIFAMPICIN; TELAVANCIN; TIGECYCLINE; VANCOMYCIN;

ARTHRALGIA; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE INFECTION; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; CYTOPENIA; DIARRHEA; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG ERUPTION; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; DRUG SENSITIVITY; ENDEMIC DISEASE; ENTEROCOCCAL INFECTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; HYPERSENSITIVITY REACTION; INFECTION RATE; INFECTION RISK; LACTIC ACIDOSIS; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS INFECTION; MYALGIA; MYOPATHY; NAUSEA; NEPHROTOXICITY; NEUTROPENIA; NONHUMAN; OPTIC NEURITIS; OSTEOARTHROPATHY; PANCYTOPENIA; PATHOGENICITY; PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY; REVIEW; RHABDOMYOLYSIS; SEROTONIN SYNDROME; SKIN INCISION; SOFT TISSUE INFECTION; STAPHYLOCOCCAL SKIN INFECTION; STEVENS JOHNSON SYNDROME; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; VOMITING; WOUND DRAINAGE;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; HUMANS; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; RISK FACTORS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS;

METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 65949106132     PISSN: 00126667     EISSN: 00126667     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2165/00003495-200969060-00004     Document Type: Review

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