Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus carriage and risk factors for skin infections, Southwestern Alaska, USA

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 797-803

  Michal Stevens, A ^a   Hennessy, Thomas ^a   Baggett, Henry C ^a   Bruden, Dana ^a   Parks, Debbie ^a   Klejka, Joseph ^b  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b Yukon Kuskokwim Heath Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ABSCESS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM CARRIER; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CELLULITIS; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLICULITIS; FURUNCULOSIS; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MIXED INFECTION; NONHUMAN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SCHOOL CHILD; SKIN INFECTION; SURVIVAL; THROAT CULTURE; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALASKA; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; CARRIER STATE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; EXOTOXINS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LEUKOCIDINS; MALE; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MIDDLE AGED; NASAL CAVITY; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL SKIN INFECTIONS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 77951184442     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1605.090851     Document Type: Article

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