This Article  • References  • Full text PDF  • Send to a friend  • Save in My Folder  • Save to citation manager  • Permissions  Citing Articles  • Citation map  • Citing articles on HighWire  • Citing articles on Web of Science (54)  • Contact me when this article is cited  Related Content  • Similar articles in this journal  Social Bookmarking   What's this?

Part II

Jeffrey S. Dover, MD, FRCPC; Richard Allen Johnson, MD, CM

Arch Dermatol. 1991;127(10):1549-1558.

	Since this article does not have an abstract, we have provided the first 150 words of the full text PDF and any section headings.

Part I appeared in the September issue of the ARCHIVES.

Bacterial Infections

Staphylococcus aureus Infection.—

Staphylococcus aureus is the most common pathogen in cutaneous and systemic bacterial infections occurring in HIV-infected individuals. Staphylococcus aureus colonizes the nose initially and may subsequently infect various sites. In both asymptomatic and symptomatic HIV-infected individuals, the S aureus nasal carriage rate is twice that of control groups. Staphylococcus aureus may also be locally invasive at the carriage site causing nasal abscess.

The incidence of S aureus infection in HIV-infected patients is high, causing significant morbidity and mortality. In a study of 46 adult patients with AIDS, autopsy examination revealed that 83% had had a bacterial (nonmycobacterial) infection at some time during the course of their illness, of which 54% had been caused by S aureus. Nosocomial infections occur in HIV-infected patients at the rate of 3.46 per thousand hospital days compared with the rate . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
From the Division of Dermatology, New England Deaconess Hospital, and Department of Dermatology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass.

Footnotes
Accepted for publication April 10, 1991.

Reprint requests to 110 Francis St, Boston, MA 02215 (Dr Dover).

CiteULike    Connotea    Del.icio.us    Digg    Reddit    Technorati    Twitter     What's this?