Epidemic community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infections-increasingly, everyone's problem

Journal of AAPOS

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 225-226

  Daum, Robert S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINDAMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DALFOPRISTIN PLUS QUINUPRISTIN; DAPTOMYCIN; DOXYCYCLINE; ERYTHROMYCIN; LINEZOLID; MINOCYCLINE; POLYTRIM; QUINOLONE DERIVATIVE; VANCOMYCIN;

ABSCESS; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; CONJUNCTIVITIS; EDITORIAL; EPIDEMIC; EYE INFECTION; HUMAN; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; ORBIT CELLULITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN INFECTION; SOFT TISSUE INFECTION; STAPHYLOCOCCAL SKIN INFECTION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; STRAIN IDENTIFICATION;

CHILD; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EYE INFECTIONS, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS;

EID: 67449095194     PISSN: 10918531     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaapos.2009.04.001     Document Type: Editorial

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