Neonatal necrotising fasciitis following superficial skin infection with community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus

Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health

Volumn 47, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 918-920

  Walls, Tony ^a   Williams, Gary ^a   Adams, Susan ^a   Sugo, Ella ^a   Mulcahy, Des ^b  

^a SYDNEY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b Orange Base Hospital   (Australia)

Author keywords

community associated methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus; MRSA; necrotising fasciitis; omphalitis

Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR; CLINDAMYCIN; CREATININE; ERYTHROMYCIN; HEMOGLOBIN; INOTROPIC AGENT; MEROPENEM; PHENOBARBITAL; POTASSIUM; SODIUM; VANCOMYCIN;

ABDOMINAL DISTENSION; ABDOMINAL WALL; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; ASSISTED VENTILATION; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CASE REPORT; CELLULITIS; COMMUNITY ASSOCIATED METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; CONSTIPATION; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DEBRIDEMENT; ECHOGRAPHY; ERYTHEMA; FAT NECROSIS; FEEDING DISORDER; FOCAL EPILEPSY; HEMOFILTRATION; HUMAN; HYPERKALEMIA; HYPONATREMIA; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; LUNG HEMORRHAGE; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS INFECTION; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; NECROTIZING FASCIITIS; NEUTROPHIL COUNT; NEWBORN; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; OMPHALITIS; PAIN; POTASSIUM BLOOD LEVEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUSTULE; RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCLE; SKIN INFECTION; SODIUM BLOOD LEVEL; SUBCUTANEOUS FAT; TACHYCARDIA; TACHYPNEA; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; UMBILICUS; VOMITING;

ABDOMINAL WALL; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; FASCIITIS, NECROTIZING; FATAL OUTCOME; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; STAPHYLOCOCCAL SKIN INFECTIONS;

EID: 84055222761     PISSN: 10344810     EISSN: 14401754     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1754.2010.01732.x     Document Type: Article

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