The enduring menace of MRSA: Incidence, treatment, and prevention in a county jail

Journal of Correctional Health Care

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 174-178

  Deger, Grant E ^a   Quick, David W ^b  

^a Whatcom County Health Department   (United States)

^b ST JOSEPH'S HOSPITAL AND MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Jail heath care; MRSA prevalence; MRSA treatment; SSTIs

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ARTICLE; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; CROWDING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYGIENE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; PRISON; PRISONER; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SANITATION; STANDARD; STAPHYLOCOCCAL SKIN INFECTION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; WOUND INFECTION;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; CROWDING; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYGIENE; MALE; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; PRISONERS; PRISONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SANITATION; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL SKIN INFECTIONS; WASHINGTON; WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 69249201270     PISSN: 10783458     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1078345808326623     Document Type: Article

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