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Necrotizing fasciitis caused by community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Los Angeles.

The New England journal of medicine - 7 Apr 2005

Miller Loren G, Perdreau-Remington Francoise, Rieg Gunter, Mehdi Sheherbano, Perlroth Josh, Bayer Arnold S, Tang Angela W, Phung Tieu O, Spellberg Brad

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BACKGROUND: Necrotizing fasciitis is a life-threatening infection requiring urgent surgical and medical therapy. Staphylococcus aureus has been a very uncommon cause of necrotizing fasciitis, but we have recently noted an alarming number of these infections caused by community-associated methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA). METHODS: We reviewed the records of 843 patients whose wound cultures grew MRSA at our...

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PMID: 15814880
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa042683

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