Nurse Epidemiologist, Universidad de Cordoba, Colombia
Review Article
Staphylococcus Aureus Infections, Frequent Clinical Presentations In pediatrics, Sensitivity in the Last 3 Years in Monteria, Colombia
Author(s): Alexandra Zapata Botero*, Dayana Romero Rico, Jiseth Paola Avilez Aleman, Sandra Milena Negrete Contreras, Estefania Ortega Uribe, Alba Luz Ramirez Vargas, Hector Rafael Pineda Roman, Rafael Chica Polo and Carlos Mauricio Vergara Lobo
Introduction: In the last decade, Staphylococcus aureus has been one of the main pathogens that has had a negative impact on human health, mainly in the pediatric population, given its particular virulence characteristics that give it a high capacity to produce a wide range of diseases, of which it is estimated that up to 70% of these are caused by community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA) without associated risk factors. The following analytical, descriptive and retrospective study evaluates and analyzes the prevalence rates of cause of admission and cases associated with pediatric infections caused by community-acquired resistant Staphylococcus aureus in a clinic in the city of Monteria, Cordoba, Colombia.
Objectives: To analyze the behavior of MRSA-ACS infections in the pediatric population in a clinic in th.. View More»
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