Community‐Acquired Methicillin‐Resistant<i>Staphylococcus aureus</i>in Hospitalized Adults and Children without Known Risk Factors

J. Gorak, Edward; Diane Yamada, S.; D. Brown, Joel

doi:10.1086/520437

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Community‐Acquired Methicillin‐ResistantStaphylococcus aureusin Hospitalized Adults and Children without Known Risk Factors

Published in Clinical Infectious Diseases • Oct 1, 1999

Authors:

Edward J. Gorak

S. Diane Yamada

Joel D. Brown

Abstract

Community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infections are not commonly recognized in healthy patients without predisposing risk. We performed a retrospective study of patients hospitalized with community-acquired MRSA infections from 1992 to 1996 in Honolulu to determine i...

Subject

Medicine

Clindamycin

Staphylococcal Skin Infections

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