Importance of colonization site in the current epidemic of staphylococcal skin abscesses

Pediatrics

Volumn 125, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Faden, Howard ^a,b,c   Lesse, Alan J ^a   Trask, Jennifer ^a,b,c   Hill, January A ^b,c,d   Hess, Donavon J ^b,c,d   Dryja, Diane ^b   Lee, Yi Horng ^b,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b Kaleida Health ^*  (United States)

^c CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF BUFFALO   (United States)

^d VA WESTERN NEW YORK HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

Abscess; Community acquired MRSA; Staphylococcal infections

Indexed keywords

PANTON VALENTINE LEUKOCIDIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; GENE CASSETTE; GENE LOCUS; GENE NUMBER; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; NOSE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED ELECTRIC FIELD; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RECTUM; SCHOOL CHILD; SKIN ABSCESS; SOFT TISSUE ABSCESS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL SKIN INFECTION; SURGICAL DRAINAGE; TANDEM REPEAT;

ABSCESS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; NOSE; RECTUM; STAPHYLOCOCCAL SKIN INFECTIONS;

EID: 77649165477     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 10984275     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2009-1523     Document Type: Article

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