title: Update on Epidemiology and Treatment of MRSA Infections in Children.
abstract: In 2000-10 the epidemiology of pediatric MRSA infections in the United States was transformed with an epidemic of CA-MRSA infections. We review the epidemiology of MRSA in the community and in the health care setting, including intensive care units, among infants and CF patients, and in households as well as the impact that the CA-MRSA epidemic has had on hospitalization with MRSA infections. Risk factors for carriage, transmission, and initial and recurrent infection with MRSA are discussed. New studies on the treatment of pediatric MRSA infections and on the efficacy of MRSA decolonization are reviewed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, University of Chicago Medicine, Chicago, IL ; Department of Pediatrics, University of Chicago Medicine, Chicago, IL.
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