Stratification of the Risk Factors of Community-Acquired Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus Hand Infection

Journal of Hand Surgery

Volumn 35, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1135-1141

  Nourbakhsh, Ali ^a   Papafragkou, Sotirios ^a   Dever, Lisa L ^a   Capo, John ^a   Tan, Virak ^a  

^a RUTGERS NEW JERSEY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Hand; infection; MRSA; Staphylococcus aureus

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; C REACTIVE PROTEIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CHILD; CHRONIC HEPATITIS; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEBRIDEMENT; DIABETES MELLITUS; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEMALE; FINGER; HAND; HAND INFECTION; HUMAN; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ABUSE; LAVAGE; LEUKOCYTE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS INFECTION; PATIENT EDUCATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCHOOL CHILD; URBAN AREA; WRIST;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HAND; HEPATITIS; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; INCIDENCE; MALE; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEX DISTRIBUTION; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; SUBSTANCE ABUSE, INTRAVENOUS; UNITED STATES; URBAN POPULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77954088452     PISSN: 03635023     EISSN: 15316564     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhsa.2010.03.039     Document Type: Article

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