TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Bacterial Infections A1 - Prawer, Scott A1 - Bart, Bruce A2 - Soutor, Carol A2 - Hordinsky, Maria K. Y1 - 2017 N1 - T2 - Clinical Dermatology AB - Most common bacterial skin infections are caused by coagulase-positive Staphylococcus aureus or group A beta-hemolytic streptococci. Before the widespread availability of antibiotics, many common skin infections resulted in serious illness and even death. In the 1950s following the widespread use of antibiotics, most staphylococcal and streptococcal skin infections responded well to the use of the penicillins. However, scattered cases of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) were already being reported by the early 1960s. From late 1960s to the mid-1990s, MRSA infections became a major problem especially in large urban hospitals. In the past decade, hospital-acquired MRSA infections began to decrease as hospitals instituted more aggressive infection control measures, but during that same time community-acquired MRSA infections increased. SN - PB - McGraw-Hill Education CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/03/28 UR - accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1177004947 ER -