Clinical practice guidelines by the infectious diseases society of america for the treatment of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infections in adults and children.

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Published in Clin Infect Dis on January 04, 2011

Authors

Catherine Liu1, Arnold Bayer, Sara E Cosgrove, Robert S Daum, Scott K Fridkin, Rachel J Gorwitz, Sheldon L Kaplan, Adolf W Karchmer, Donald P Levine, Barbara E Murray, Michael J Rybak, David A Talan, Henry F Chambers, Infectious Diseases Society of America

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, University of California-San Francisco, San Francisco, California94102, USA. catherine.liu@ucsf.edu

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