MRSA
By: edited by John A. Weigelt.
Contributors: Weigelt, John A.
Publisher: Informa Healthcare
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9781420045499
Subjects: Staphylococcus aureus infections -- Chemotherapy.; Methicillin resistance.; Staphylococcal Infections -- prevention & control.; Methicillin Resistance.; Staphylococcus aureus -- drug effects.
Other titles: Methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: Overview of Staphylococcus aureus in medicine / Kent Crossley; value: Epidemiology of MRSA / Nasia Safdar, Barry C. Fox, & Linda M. McKinley; value: Genetics of MRSA: the United States and worldwide / Dennis Stevens; value: Community-acquired MRSA as a pathogen / Karen J. Brasel & John A. Weigelt; value: MRSA and complicated skin and soft tissue infections / Kamal M.F. Itani; value: MRSA in the diabetic foot / Lee C. Rogers, Nicholas J. Bevilacqua, & David G. Armstrong; value: MRSA pneumonia / Anna P. Lam & Richard G. Wunderink; value: Central venous access and MRSA bacteremia / Renae E. Stafford; value: MRSA bacteremia / Melissa Brunsvold & Lena M. Napolitano; value: Antibiotics for MRSA infections / R. Lawrence Reed; value: Reducing the risk of nosocomial dissemination of MRSA: an infection control perspective / Charles E. Edmiston, Jr.; value: Outcomes and cost considerations with MRSA infections / Peggy S. McKinnon & Thomas P. Lodise, Jr.