Silver lontophoretic catheter: A prototype of a long-term antiinfective vascular access device

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 173, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 495-498

  Raad, Issani ^a   Hachem, Ray ^b   Zermeno, Alfonso ^b   Clifton Stephens, L ^b   Bodey, Gerald P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORHEXIDINE; SULFADIAZINE SILVER;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY; ANTIFUNGAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CATHETER INFECTION; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETER; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG FORMULATION; INFECTION PREVENTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; VASCULAR ACCESS;

ANIMALS; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS, LOCAL; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIA; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CATHETERIZATION, CENTRAL VENOUS; CATHETERS, INDWELLING; CHLORHEXIDINE; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; DRUG COMBINATIONS; IONTOPHORESIS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; RABBITS; SILVER; SILVER SULFADIAZINE; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS;

EID: 0030071920     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/infdis/173.2.495     Document Type: Article

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