Diversity of coryneforms found in infections following prosthetic joint insertion and open fractures

Infection

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 36-38

  Von Graevenitz, A ^a   Frommelt, L ^b   Punter Streit V ^a   Funke, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b ENDO Klinik   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CORYNEBACTERIUM; CORYNEBACTERIUM DIPHTHERIAE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; JOINT PROSTHESIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NONHUMAN; OPEN FRACTURE; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; PATHOGENICITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; SURGICAL INFECTION;

EID: 0031975513     PISSN: 03008126     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02768750     Document Type: Article

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