Staphylococcal Infections in Hospitals

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The Susceptible HostIt has been observed from earliest reports on staphylococcal disease that in certain groups staphylococcal infections are particularly likely not only to develop but also to have a fatal outcome.4, 136 With the use of clinical or epidemiologic observations several factors have been correlated grossly with susceptibility to staphylococcal infections: general factors, such as age, sex, race and nutritional or metabolic status; and predisposing diseases, such as diabetes, cystic fibrosis, agammaglobulinemia, agranulocytosis, neoplasms, chronic lung disease, influenza and other viral infections. Other related factors are trauma, operative wounds, foreign bodies, burns, eczema and other dermatitides, urinary catheterization, intravenous . . .

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