Skin lesions in barracks: consider community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infection instead of spider bites.
Recent outbreaks of mysterious skin lesions on multiple personnel at several military facilities were initially blamed on spiders. Requests were made for pest inspection and control to remedy the situation. Greater scrutiny of the situation led to a hypothesis that instead of spiders, an infectious...
| Publicado en: | Military Medicine Vol. 171; no. 9; pp. 830 - 833 |
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| Formato: | research Journal Article |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Sep2006
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