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Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus Aureus in emergency department patients in the United Arab Emirates.

Muna Al JalafHanan FadaliRasha AlaneeFiras NajjarZulfa Al DeesiRania M SeliemEric James Nilles
Published in: BMC emergency medicine (2018)
This is the first study to describe the epidemiology of CA-MRSA in the ambulatory setting in the Middle East and demonstrates a substantial proportion of cases presenting with skin and soft tissue infections were CA-MRSA. Although most skin and soft tissue infections are abscesses for which the cornerstone of treatment is high quality incision and drainage, if adjunct antibiotics are prescribed in this setting, CA-MRSA-active antibiotics should be considered.
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