MRSA
By: edited by John A. Weigelt.
Contributors: Weigelt, John A.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Informa Healthcare
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781439818794
Subjects: Staphylococcus aureus infections -- Chemotherapy; Methicillin resistance; Staphylococcal Infections -- prevention & control; Community-Acquired Infections -- prevention & control; Cross Infection -- prevention & control; Methicillin Resistance; Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus -- drug effects
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Overview of staphylococcus aureus in medicine / Kent Crossley; title: Epidemiology of MRSA / Nasia Safdar, Barry C. Fox, and Linda M. McKinley; title: MRSA genetics and virulence expression / Dennis Stevens; title: Community-acquired MRSA / Karen J. Brasel and John A. Weigelt; title: MRSA and complicated skin and soft tissue infections / Kamal M. F. Itani; title: MRSA in the diabetic foot / Lee C. Rogers, Nicholas J. Bevilacqua, and David G. Armstrong; title: MRSA pneumonia / Anna P. Lam and Richard G. Wunderink; title: Medical device infections with MRSA / Mary Beth Graham; title: MRSA bacteremia / Melissa Brunsvold and Lena M. Napolitano; title: Antibiotics for MRSA infections-us / R. Lawrence Reed; title: Gram positive resistance-clinical implications / John Rotschafer; title: Reducing the risk of nosocomial dissemination of MRSA : an infection control perspective / Charles E. Edmiston Jr; title: Prevention of transmission and recurrence of CA-MRSA infection in a patient population / Rene Stafford; title: Outcomes and cost considerations with MRSA infections / Thomas P. Lodise Jr.