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- Title
Outcome and attributable mortality in critically Ill patients with bacteremia involving methicillin-susceptible and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.
- Authors
Blot, Stijn I; Vandewoude, Koenraad H; Hoste, Eric A; Colardyn, Francis A
- Abstract
Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia carries high mortality rates. The clinical impact of methicillin resistance remains controversial: outcome comparisons between patients with bacteremia involving methicillin-susceptible (MSSA) and methicillin-resistant (MRSA) S aureus are difficult to perform because of important differences in severity of illness.
- Publication
Archives of internal medicine, 2002, Vol 162, Issue 19, p2229
- ISSN
0003-9926
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1001/archinte.162.19.2229