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Chapter 12 - Bacterial Skin and Soft-Tissue Infections

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 July 2018

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Bradley W. Frazee
Edited by
Rachel L. Chin ,
Bradley W. Frazee  and
Zlatan Coralic
Rachel L. Chin
Affiliation:
University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine
Bradley W. Frazee
Affiliation:
University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine
Zlatan Coralic
Affiliation:
University of California, San Francisco
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Emergency Management of Infectious Diseases , pp. 79 - 86
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2018

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Stevens, D. L., Bisno, A. L., Chambers, H. F., et al. Practice guidelines for the diagnosis and management of skin and soft tissue infections: 2014 update by the Infectious Diseases Society of America. Clin. Infect. Dis. 2014; 59(2): e10–52.Stevens, D. L. and Bryant, A. E. Necrotizing soft-tissue infections. N. Engl. J. Med. 2017; 377(23): 2253–65.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed

Additional Reading

Stevens, D. L., Bisno, A. L., Chambers, H. F., et al. Practice guidelines for the diagnosis and management of skin and soft tissue infections: 2014 update by the Infectious Diseases Society of America. Clin. Infect. Dis. 2014; 59(2): e10–52.Stevens, D. L. and Bryant, A. E. Necrotizing soft-tissue infections. N. Engl. J. Med. 2017; 377(23): 2253–65.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed

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