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...

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Published in:	Military Medicine Vol. 171; no. 9; pp. 830 - 833
Main Authors:	Vetter RS, Pagac BB, Reiland RW, Bolesh DT, Swanson DL, Pagac, Benedict B, Reiland, Ronald W, Bolesh, David T, Swanson, David L
Format:	research Journal Article
Published:	Oxford University Press / USA Sep2006
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