RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 <em>Staphylococcus aureus:</em> The new adventures of a legendary pathogen
JF Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine
JO Cleve Clin J Med
FD Cleveland Clinic
SP 177
OP 192
VO 75
IS 3
A1 Rehm, Susan J.
YR 2008
UL http://www.ccjm.org/content/75/3/177.abstract
AB Nosocomial infections with strains of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) began to emerge in the 1960s, are increasing in frequency, and tend to have worse outcomes than infections due to methicillin-susceptible S aureus. Community-associated MRSA infections emerged in the 1990s. Community-associated MRSA strains have up to now been epidemiologically and bacteriologically distinct from hospital-associated MRSA strains, but in a new twist, MRSA strains that have so far been only community-associated are invading the hospital. Another worrisome trend is increasing resistance to vancomycin (Vancocin).