Severity of disease and clinical outcomes in patients with hospital-acquired pneumonia due to methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus strains not influenced by the presence of the panton-valentine leukocidin gene

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 53, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 766-771

  Peyrani, Paula ^a   Allen, Marty ^a   Wiemken, Timothy L ^a   Haque, Nadia Z ^b   Zervos, Marcus J ^b   Ford, Kimbal D ^c   Scerpella, Ernesto G ^c   Mangino, Julie E ^d   Kett, Daniel H ^e   Ramirez, Julio A ^a  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Henry Ford Health System Division of Infectious Diseases   (United States)

^c PFIZER INC   (United States)

^d OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINDAMYCIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; PANTON VALENTINE LEUKOCIDIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ADULT; AGED; APACHE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CHROMOSOME; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HOSPITAL ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS INFECTION; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED STATES; VENTILATOR ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA;

AGED; BACTERIAL TOXINS; CROSS INFECTION; EXOTOXINS; FEMALE; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; LEUKOCIDINS; MALE; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMONIA, STAPHYLOCOCCAL; PNEUMONIA, VENTILATOR-ASSOCIATED; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; UNITED STATES; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

EID: 80052897315     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: 15376591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cid/cir541     Document Type: Article

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