Acute bacterial endocarditis following burns: Case report and review

Burns

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 369-373

  Cartotto, R C ^a,b   Macdonald, D B ^a   Wasan, S M ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b HOTEL DIEU HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Burn infection; Endocarditis; MRI; Septicaemia

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; BLOOD CULTURE; BURN; BURN INFECTION; CASE REPORT; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEVER; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HEART MUSCLE INJURY; HEART VALVE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; SEPTICEMIA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; THERMAL INJURY;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTEREMIA; BURNS; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ENDOCARDITIS, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; FATAL OUTCOME; HUMANS; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MALE; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 0032104359     PISSN: 03054179     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0305-4179(98)00027-8     Document Type: Article

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