Community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus ST398 infection, Italy

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 845-847

  Pan, Angelo ^a   Battisti, Antonio ^b   Zoncada, Alessia ^a   Bernieri, Francesco ^a   Boldini, Massimo ^c   Franco, Alessia ^b   Giorgi, Maurilio ^d   Lurescia, Manuela ^b   Lorenzotti, Silvia ^a   Martinotti, Mario ^a   Monaco, Monica ^e   Pantosti, Annalisa ^e  

^a CREMONA HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO ZOOPROFILATTICO SPERIMENTALE DELLE REGIONI LAZIO E TOSCANA   (Italy)

^c Cremona   (Italy)

^d Azienda Sanitaria Locale di Cremona   (Italy)

^e ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLINDAMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; GENTAMICIN; LINEZOLID; MACROLIDE; POLYPEPTIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; PSEUDOMONIC ACID; QUINOLONE DERIVATIVE; RIFAMPICIN; SULTAMICILLIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ADD ON THERAPY; ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BLOOD CULTURE; CASE REPORT; CELLULITIS; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FEVER; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; ITALY; LABORATORY TEST; LETTER; LEUKOCYTOSIS; LIVESTOCK; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS INFECTION; MICROBIAL IDENTIFICATION; NEEDLE BIOPSY; NEUTROPHILIA; NOSE SMEAR; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OBESITY; PAIN; PELVIC MULTIOCULATED ABSCESS; PELVIS ABSCESS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PYOMYOSITIS; SWINE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WINE;

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; HUMANS; ITALY; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MIDDLE AGED; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; SWINE;

EID: 66149108373     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1505.081417     Document Type: Letter

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