How Common is MRSA in Adult Septic Arthritis?

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 54, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 695-700

  Frazee, Bradley W ^a,b   Fee, Christopher ^b   Lambert, Larry ^a  

^a ALAMEDA COUNTY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CLINDAMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DOXYCYCLINE; LEVOFLOXACIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTHROCENTESIS; ARTHROPATHY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ARTHRITIS; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EMERGENCY WARD; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS INFECTION; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MORBIDITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; SYNOVIAL FLUID; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ARTHRITIS, INFECTIOUS; ARTHROSCOPY; CALIFORNIA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HIP JOINT; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; KNEE JOINT; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SHOULDER JOINT; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; SYNOVIAL FLUID;

EID: 70350044870     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: 10976760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2009.06.511     Document Type: Article

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