Seasonality of staphylococcal infections

Seasonality of MRSA Infections

Using MRSA isolates submitted to our hospital microbiology laboratory January 2001-March 2010 and the number of our emergency department (ED) visits, quarterly community-associated (CA) and hospital-associated (HA) MRSA infections were modeled using Poisson regressions. For pediatric patients, approximately 1.85x (95% CI 1.45x-2.36x, adj. p<0.0001) as many CA-MRSA infections per ED visit occurr...

Staphylococcal infections.

977 T HE STAPHYLOCOCCUS problem has been placed high on the agenda of the Public Health Service for this year. Last year it was Asian flu vaccine. The year before it was poliomyelitis vaccine. This year it is the problem of hospital-acquired staphylococens infection. It is pleasing to me to see the position pediatricians have taken as one of the first national organizations to realize the impor...

[Staphylococcal infections].

All the forms of staphylococcal infections require cooperation among microbiologists, immunologists and clinicians. In case of any acute staphylococcus process, the curative tactics is based on an effective chemotherapy sometimes completed by a radical surgical intervention. In case of chronic forms, however, the antibiotics therapy is considered to be problematic. It is the specific immunother...

Staphylococcal Infections

Epidemiology and Transmission 487 Staphylococcus aureus 487 Coagulase-Negative Staphylococci 488 Microbiology 489 Staphylococcus aureus 489 Coagulase-Negative Staphylococci 490 Pathogenesis of Disease 490 Virulence Factors of Staphylococcus aureus 490 Epithelial Attachment and Invasion 490 Innate Immune Resistance 491 Secreted Toxins 492 Quorum Sensing and Regulation of Virulence Factor Express...

Treatment of Generalized Staphylococcal Infections.