Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 51, Issue 3 , Pages 285-288 , March 2008

The Many Faces of MRSA: Community-Acquired Infection Knows No Bounds

  • Maryn McKenna (Special Contributor to Annals News & Perspective)

      Affiliations

    • Maryn McKenna is a Minneapolis journalist. Her book on MRSA will be published by Free Press in 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2008.01.320

Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 51, Issue 3 , Pages 285-288 , March 2008

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