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Assume Skin and Soft Tissue Infection to Be MRSA
By: SHERRY BOSCHERT, Internal Medicine News Digital Network
11/22/10
FROM THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE PACIFIC DERMATOLOGIC ASSOCIATION
PASADENA, CALIF. ? Clinicians should assume community-acquired skin and soft tissue infections are due to methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infection unless proved otherwise, according to Dr. Paul D. Holtom.
For years, most hospital-associated S. aureus infections have been resistant to methicillin, and now the same has been found for community-acquired S. aureus in studies done mostly in adults, Dr. Holtom of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, said at the meeting...
Assume Skin and Soft Tissue Infection to Be MRSA
By: SHERRY BOSCHERT, Internal Medicine News Digital Network
11/22/10
FROM THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE PACIFIC DERMATOLOGIC ASSOCIATION
PASADENA, CALIF. ? Clinicians should assume community-acquired skin and soft tissue infections are due to methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infection unless proved otherwise, according to Dr. Paul D. Holtom.
For years, most hospital-associated S. aureus infections have been resistant to methicillin, and now the same has been found for community-acquired S. aureus in studies done mostly in adults, Dr. Holtom of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, said at the meeting...