Community-Acquired Methicillin-Resistant Pyogenic Liver Abscess

• Main Authors: Joel Cherian Medical Student (Author), Rahul Singh MD (Author), Muralidhar Varma MD (Author), Sudha Vidyasagar MD (Author), Chiranjay Mukhopadhyay MD (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: SAGE Publishing, 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Pyogenic liver abscesses are rare with an incidence of 0.5% to 0.8% and are mostly due to hepatobiliary causes (40% to 60%). Most are polymicrobial with less than 10% being caused by Staphylococcus aureus . Of these, few are caused by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and fewer stil...