Community-Acquired Methicillin-Resistant Pyogenic Liver Abscess

• المؤلفون الرئيسيون: Joel Cherian Medical Student (مؤلف), Rahul Singh MD (مؤلف), Muralidhar Varma MD (مؤلف), Sudha Vidyasagar MD (مؤلف), Chiranjay Mukhopadhyay MD (مؤلف)
• التنسيق: كتاب
• منشور في: SAGE Publishing, 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z.
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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...