SCCM Pod-136 PCCM: Community-Associated MRSA in Previously Healthy Children

Amy Creel, MD, served as lead author on an article published in the May 2009 issue of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, titled “Severe Invasive Community-Associated Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA) Infections in Previously Healthy Children.” Creel is a pediatric critical care physician at Children’s Hospital in New Orleans, Louisiana. The study examined increases in CA-MRSA in healthy children, which raise concerns about the initial empirical antibiotic therapy being used.

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