Community-associated Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Pediatric Patients

Abstract

Community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA) infections increased from 2000 to 2003 in hospitalized pediatric patients in Houston. CA-MRSA was associated with greater illness than was infection with methicillin-susceptible strains. Children with CA-MRSA were younger and mostly African American. Of MRSA isolates, 4.5% had the inducible macrolide-lincosamide-streptogramin B phenotype.

Keywords

• Keywords: Methicillin Resistance
• Staphylococcus
• Pediatric Infectious Diseases/vaccines
• AOM
• bacterial respiratory infection
• S. pneumoniae