RT Book, Section
A1 Prawer, Scott
A1 Bart, Bruce
A2 Soutor, Carol
A2 Hordinsky, Maria K.
SR Print(0)
ID 1177004947
T1 Bacterial Infections
T2 Clinical Dermatology
YR 2017
FD 2017
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9780071769150
LK dermatology.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1177004947
RD 2024/04/18
AB Most  common  bacterial  skin  infections  are  caused  by  coagulase-positive  Staphylococcus  aureus  or  group  A  beta-hemolytic  streptococci.  Before  the  widespread  availability  of  antibiotics,  many  common  skin  infections  resulted  in  serious  illness  and  even  death.  In  the  1950s  following  the  widespread  use  of  antibiotics,  most  staphylococcal  and  streptococcal  skin  infections  responded  well  to  the  use  of  the  penicillins.  However,  scattered  cases  of  methicillin-resistant  Staphylococcus  aureus  (MRSA)  were  already  being  reported  by  the  early  1960s.  From  late  1960s  to  the  mid-1990s,  MRSA  infections  became  a  major  problem  especially  in  large  urban  hospitals.  In  the  past  decade,  hospital-acquired  MRSA  infections  began  to  decrease  as  hospitals  instituted  more  aggressive  infection  control  measures,  but  during  that  same  time  community-acquired  MRSA  infections  increased.