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- Title
Community-associated Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Pediatric Patients.
- Authors
Ochoa, Theresa J.; Mohr, John; Wanger, Audrey; Murphy, James R.; Heresi, Gloria P.
- Abstract
Community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA) infections increased from 2000 to 2003 in hospitalized pediatric patients in Houston, CA-MRSA was associated with greater illness than was infection with methicillin-susceptible strains. Children with CA-MRSA were younger and mostly African American, Of MRSA isolates, 4.5% had the inducible macrolide-lincosamide-streptogramin B phenotype.
- Subjects
METHICILLIN resistance; STAPHYLOCOCCUS aureus; JUVENILE diseases; PENICILLIN; PHENOTYPES
- Publication
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2005, Vol 11, Issue 6, p966
- ISSN
1080-6040
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3201/eid1106.050142