Management of skin abscesses in the era of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus

N Engl J Med. 2014 Mar 13;370(11):1039-47. doi: 10.1056/NEJMra1212788.

Authors

Adam J Singer¹, David A Talan

Affiliation

¹ From the Department of Emergency Medicine, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY (A.J.S.); the Departments of Emergency Medicine and Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Olive View-UCLA Medical Center, Sylmar, CA (D.A.T.); and the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles (D.A.T.).

PMID: 24620867
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMra1212788

No abstract available

Publication types

Review

MeSH terms

Abscess / diagnosis
Abscess / therapy*
Anti-Bacterial Agents / therapeutic use*
Combined Modality Therapy
Drainage*
Humans
Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus*
Staphylococcal Skin Infections / diagnosis
Staphylococcal Skin Infections / therapy*
Therapeutic Irrigation

Substances

Anti-Bacterial Agents