Evaluation of penicillin and hyperbaric oxygen in the treatment of streptococcal myositis

Annals of Plastic Surgery

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 131-136

  Zamboni, William A ^a   Mazolewski, Peter J ^a   Erdmann, Detlev ^b   Bergman, Beth A ^b   Hussman, Jurgen ^b   Cooper, Morris D ^b   Smoot, E Clyde ^b   Russell, Robert C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^b SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PENICILLIN G;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; COLONY FORMING UNIT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HYPERBARIC OXYGEN; MORTALITY; MOUSE; MYOSITIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; SURVIVAL;

ANIMALS; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DRUG SYNERGISM; FASCIITIS, NECROTIZING; FEMALE; HYPERBARIC OXYGENATION; MICE; MYOSITIS; PENICILLINS; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0030806861     PISSN: 01487043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000637-199708000-00004     Document Type: Article

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