Emergency Medicine Reports – June 10, 2007
June 10, 2007
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Multi-Drug Resistant Bacteria: Implications for the Emergency Physician
The authors of this issue discuss three types of drug-resistant bacteria that can colonize or infect emergency department patients. Community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and, to a lesser extent, vancomycin-resistant enterococci are known to most emergency physicians.