Unusual recovery of animal staphylococci from septic wounds of hospital patients in Ile-Ife, Nigeria

Letters in Applied Microbiology

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 87-90

  Kolawole, D O ^a   Shittu, A O ^a  

^a OBAFEMI AWOLOWO UNIVERSITY   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; PATIENT REHABILITATION;

ILE-IFE; INFECTED WOUNDS; NIGERIA; NORMAL METHODS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS SCIURI; Β-LACTAMASE;

HOSPITALS;

CHLORAMPHENICOL; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE; ERYTHROMYCIN; FUSIDATE SODIUM; GENTAMICIN; KANAMYCIN; LINCOMYCIN; METICILLIN; NEOMYCIN; NOVOBIOCIN; PENICILLIN G; PHOSPHATASE; STREPTOMYCIN; TOBRAMYCIN; TRIMETHOPRIM;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; NIGERIA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; WOUND INFECTION; ZOONOSIS;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); STAPHYLOCOCCI; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS GALLINARUM; STAPHYLOCOCCUS SCIURI;

EID: 0031021163     PISSN: 02668254     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1472-765X.1997.00337.x     Document Type: Article

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