Disseminated sepsis due to a Panton-Valentine leukocidin producing strain of community acquired meticillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus and use of intravenous immunoglobulin therapy
- 24 May 2005
- journal article
- Published by BMJ in Archives of Disease in Childhood
- Vol. 91 (2) , 201
- https://doi.org/10.1136/adc.2005.075028
Abstract
A 14 year old boy presented with septicaemia and disseminated foci of infection including necrotising pneumonia, septic arthritis of the left knee, and deep vein thrombosis of the left …Keywords
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