Internal Med Medical News about Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus

Become a Member Today!
Register

Most Viewed Abstracts

1. Report Shows Shift in Starting Salaries for Physicians

2. Recommendations on the use of 18F-FDG PET in oncology

3. Gene expression signatures, clinicopathological features, and individualized therapy in breast cancer

4. AHA Guidelines on Cardiac CT for Assessing Coronary Artery Disease

5. Rapid correction of low vitamin D status in nursing home residents

Your Article Summary

See Latest Articles

(Click the title below to leave the MDLinx Network and go to the Journal's Website)

Usefulness of Weekly Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Screening
Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology, 10/06/09

Rymzhanova R et al. – The results suggest that weekly MRSA screening allows the detection of 56.1% of all cases of hospital–acquired MRSA carriage. These cases would have remained undetected had admission screening and clinical sampling been the only types of surveillance in place.

Scapular Abscess, Septic Emboli, and Deep Vein Thrombosis in a Healthy Child Due to Community-Acquired Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus: Case Report
Pediatric Emergency Care, 10/29/09 Relevance Score: 81%

SpectraTM MRSA, A New Chromogenic Agar Medium to Screen for Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus
Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 11/13/09 Relevance Score: 80%

Should Vascular Surgery Patients Be Screened Preoperatively for Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus
Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology, 10/27/09 Relevance Score: 80%

Emergence of multiresistant variants of the community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus lineage ST1-SCCmecIV in 2 hospitals in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease, 10/22/09 Relevance Score: 80%

Heterogeneous Vancomycin-Intermediate Susceptibility Phenotype in Bloodstream Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Isolates from an International Cohort of Patients with Infective Endocarditis: Prevalence, Genotype, and Clinical Significance
The Journal of Infectious Diseases, 10/19/09 Relevance Score: 80%