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The emergence of community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus has made us reexamine our long held practices and to perhaps consider some new approaches to children with skin and soft tissue infections.
In the September 2004 issue of AAP News, Carol J. Baker, M.D., and Robert W. Frenck Jr., M.D., gave physicians the following advice: Find out about the prevalence of community-acquired methicillin-resistant S. aureus (CA-MRSA) in your community. Consider culture of purulent skin or soft tissue infections as part of initial management. Drain abscesses at presentation and send material for culture and susceptibility testing (plus "D"-zone testing if the initial report comes back erythromycin resistant and clindamycin susceptible). Determine...
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