One-year surveillance of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus nasal colonization and skin and soft tissue infections in collegiate athletes

Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine

Volumn 164, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 615-620

  Creech, C Buddy ^a,b   Saye, Elizabeth ^a,b   McKenna, Brian D ^a,b   Johnson, B Gayle ^a,b   Jimenez, Natalia ^a,b   Talbot, Thomas R ^a   Bossung, Thomas ^a   Gregory, Andrew ^a   Edwards, Kathryn M ^a,b  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b MONROE CARELL JR CHILDREN S HOSPITAL AT VANDERBILT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATHLETE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; FOOTBALL; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; NONHUMAN; NOSE SMEAR; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SEASONAL VARIATION; SKIN INFECTION; SOFT TISSUE INFECTION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; UNITED STATES; UNIVERSITY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATHLETES; FEMALE; FOOTBALL; HUMANS; MALE; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; NOSE; PROSPIDIUM; RACQUET SPORTS; SPORTS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL SKIN INFECTIONS;

EID: 77954381738     PISSN: 10724710     EISSN: 15383628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archpediatrics.2010.93     Document Type: Article

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