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Neonatal disseminated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus presenting as orbital cellulitis
Shahram Anari1, Yakubu G Karagama, Barbara Fulton
1Department of Otolaryngology, the Freeman Hospital, Newcastle, UK. sssanari@yahoo.co.uk
The Journal of Laryngology and Otology
|April 6, 2005
Abstract:
Orbital cellulitis and abscess are known complications of ethmoiditis in children, but they are very rare in the newborn. The authors report a case of orbital abscess caused by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in a four-week-old neonate born four weeks prematurely.