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Osteomyelitis with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus

Journal of Hospital Infection, 1986
We describe 10 patients with hospital-acquired osteomyelitis due to methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. The patients were posttraumatic and eight had a foreign body in situ at the site of infection. Vancomycin therapy in association with radical debridement was followed by clinical and radiological cure in eight patients at 2-3.5 years follow ...
D J, Fitzpatrick, M T, Cafferkey, M, Toner, T, Beattie, C T, Keane   +4 more
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Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus

Nursing Standard, 1997
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) has had a major impact on health care causing much anxiety and distress to patients and staff, and resulting in huge financial costs. It has been widely publicised by the media which in some cases has added to people's alarm.
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Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus—a reappraisal

Journal of Hospital Infection, 1991
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) has become an intractable problem in many hospitals in the world.’ There is an overall ambivalence about how we should respond to the presence of MRSA in our hospitals. Indeed, in a recent editorial on MRSA, Haley posed the question ‘do we just have to live with it?‘.’ It is the purpose of this paper ...
C T, Keane, D C, Coleman, M T, Cafferkey
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Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus

Journal of Wound Care, 1996
A discussion detailing practical measures in patient care to aid the prevention and control of MRSA in hospital and the community
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Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Laryngitis

Annals of Otology, Rhinology & Laryngology, 2010
Infections due to methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) have become more prevalent, in part because of the emergence and spread of community-acquired MRSA. This trend is particularly concerning because of the significant rates of morbidity and mortality associated with MRSA infections, and because MRSA strains are often resistant to many ...
Tracey, Liakos, Keith, Kaye, Adam D, Rubin   +2 more
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Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus

Journal of Wound Care, 1996
This article examines some of the issues involved in the management and control of MRSA colonisation and infection in wounds
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Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Prostatitis

Urology, 2007
Prostatitis is a common condition that is associated with a poor quality of life. A recent National Institutes of Health Consensus Panel classified prostatitis into the categories of acute bacterial, chronic bacterial, chronic nonbacterial, and asymptomatic.
Thomas J, Beckman, Randall S, Edson
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Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus Aureus Infection

Clinics in Geriatric Medicine, 1992
Elderly patients with chronic illnesses are at increased risk of becoming colonized or infected with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). Therapeutic choices for the treatment of MRSA have been limited by the ever-expanding resistance of organisms and drug toxicity.
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Epidemic methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus

Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, 1988
We contrast the experiences, in our Health Authority in South-East London, with the particular epidemic methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (the EMRSA) strain that has recently spread widely around London and South-East England, and with the other MRSA (OMRSA) strains encountered there.
B D, Cookson, I, Phillips
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Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus bacteriuria

The American Journal of the Medical Sciences, 1981
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) bacteriuria was detected in 11 of 41 patients colonized or infected with MRSA. The patients with bacteriuria generally were older than 40 years of age, five were diabetic, seven had prior indwelling uretheral catheters, two had undergone other urologic manipulations, and only one was clinically ...
F L, Sapico, J Z, Montgomerie, H N, Canawati, G, Aeilts   +3 more
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