Infective endocarditis caused by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in a young woman after ear piercing: a case report

INTRODUCTION: Ear piercing is a common practice among Korean adolescents and young women and usually is performed by nonmedical personnel, sometimes under suboptimal hygienic conditions. Consequently, ear piercing has been associated with various infectious complications, including fatal infective e...

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Autores principales: Nah, So-Yun, Chung, Moon-Hyun, Park, Jae Eun, Durey, Areum, Kim, Mijeong, Lee, Jin-Soo
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2011
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3163215/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21806817
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-5-336

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