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MRSA – happy and thriving in Canada. What’s an emergency doctor supposed to do?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 May 2015

Heather Murray
Heather Murray*
Affiliation:
Departments of Medicine and Community Health and Epidemiology, Queen's University, Kingston, Ont.
*
Department of Emergency Medicine, Queen's University, 76 Stuart St., Kingston ON K7L 2V7; fax 613 548-1374; murrayh@kgh.kari.net

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Keywords

Staphylococcus aureusmethicillin resistancecommunity-associated infectionsskin diseasesinfectioussoft tissue infections
Type
Editorials • Éditoriaux
Information
Canadian Journal of Emergency Medicine , Volume 11 , Issue 5 , September 2009 , pp. 417 - 419
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians 2009

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