Empyema Necessitatis Due to Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus : Case Report and Review of the Literature
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Empyema necessitatis due to methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus: case report and review of the literature.
Empyema necessitatis is a rare complication of empyema in which the pleural infection spreads outside of the pleural space to involve the soft tissues of the chest wall. Most cases of empyema necessitatis are related to Mycobacterium tuberculosis and, less commonly, to Actinomyces spp. and Streptococcus spp. Staphylococcus aureus has rarely been reported as the causative agent of empyema necess...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Clinical Microbiology
سال: 2008
ISSN: 0095-1137,1098-660X
DOI: 10.1128/jcm.00989-08