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ArticleBMJ case reports2012

Successful treatment of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia and cholecystitis.

Santosh Kumar Nepal, Smith Giri, Keshav Panday

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Article in BMJ case reports, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Staphylococcal Gangrenous Cholecystitis: A Case Report.Case reports in gastrointestinal medicine · 2026
    Article
  2. Article
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  4. Clinical characteristics and outcomes of Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia from a biliary source.European journal of clinical microbiology & infectious diseases : official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology · 2020
    Observational
  5. Persistent bacteraemia caused byBMJ case reports · 2017
    Article
4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Santosh Kumar NepalDepartment of Hospitalist, Rapid City Regional Hospital, Rapid City, South Dakota, USA. santo3np@yahoo.com
Smith Giri
Keshav Panday

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Although Staphylococcus aureus can cause a variety of infections, involvement of the biliary tract is rare. We present a middle-aged Caucasian woman who presented with methicillin-resistant S aureus (MRSA) bacteraemia. Subsequent investigation revealed a diagnosis of acute cholecystitis with MRSA-positive specimen cultures. The patient showed clinical improvement after vancomycin therapy and laparoscopic cholecystectomy. This case adds to the growing list of infections that can be attributed to MRSA.

Indexed as

CholecystectomyMethicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureusAnti-Bacterial AgentsBacteremiaBiliary TractCholecystitisFemaleHumansMethicillin ResistanceMiddle AgedStaphylococcal InfectionsVancomycinAnti-Bacterial AgentsVancomycin

Identifiers

PMID23045455
PMCPMC4544898

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