Community-associated methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus case studies

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 1085, Issue , 2014, Pages 25-69

  Sowash, Madeleine G ^a   Uhlemann, Anne Catrin ^a  

^a Division of Infectious Diseases Department of Medicine Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Community associated (CA) MRSA; Hospital associated (HA) MRSA; Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA); Methicillin susceptible S. aureus (MSSA)

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED PROTEIN C; ADRENALIN; AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; AZITHROMYCIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLAVULANIC ACID; CLINDAMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; CREATININE; DAPTOMYCIN; DICLOXACILLIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; FUSIDATE SODIUM; GENTAMICIN; LEVOFLOXACIN; LINEZOLID; NORADRENALIN; PSEUDOMONIC ACID; RIFAMPICIN; STAPHYLOCOCCUS PROTEIN A; TETRACYCLINE; TICARCILLIN; VANCOMYCIN; VASOPRESSIN;

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BACKACHE; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; BLOOD CULTURE; BLOODSTREAM INFECTION; CARDIOVASCULAR SURGERY; CHILL; COMMUNITY ASSOCIATED METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; COUGHING; DIABETES MELLITUS; DRUG MEGADOSE; DYSPNEA; END STAGE LIVER DISEASE; EPIDEMIC; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; FEVER; FLUID RESUSCITATION; FURUNCULOSIS; GENOTYPING TECHNIQUE; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HEPATITIS C; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; LEUKOCYTOSIS; LOW BACK PAIN; LOWER ABDOMINAL PAIN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS INFECTION; METHICILLIN SUSCEPTIBLE STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MYALGIA; NONHUMAN; NOSE SMEAR; PANDEMIC; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE HYPERTROPHY; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RECURRENT INFECTION; SKIN ABRASION; SKIN ABSCESS; SKIN INFECTION; SOFT TISSUE INFECTION; SWEATING; TACHYCARDIA; THORAX PAIN; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TRACHEAL ASPIRATION PROCEDURE; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; VOMITING;

METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; CROSS INFECTION; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MALE; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMONIA; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; TRAVEL MEDICINE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84934441506     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-62703-664-1_2     Document Type: Article

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