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SUBMITTER: Self WH
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4946021 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Self Wesley H WH Wunderink Richard G RG Williams Derek J DJ Zhu Yuwei Y Anderson Evan J EJ Balk Robert A RA Fakhran Sherene S SS Chappell James D JD Casimir Geoffrey G Courtney D Mark DM Trabue Christopher C Waterer Grant W GW Bramley Anna A Magill Shelley S Jain Seema S Edwards Kathryn M KM Grijalva Carlos G CG
Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America 20160508 3
<h4>Background</h4>Prevalence of Staphylococcus aureus community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) and its clinical features remain incompletely understood, complicating empirical selection of antibiotics.<h4>Methods</h4>Using a multicenter, prospective surveillance study of adults hospitalized with CAP, we calculated the prevalence of methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA) and methicillin-susceptible S. aureus (MSSA) among all CAP episodes. We compared the epidemiologic, radiographic, and clinical chara ...[more]