Citric acid treatment of severe electric burns complicated by multiple antibiotic resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa

Burns

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 481-483

  Nagoba, B S ^a   Gandhi, R C ^b   Wadher, B J ^c   Deshmukh, S R ^a   Gandhi, S P ^b  

^a MIMSR Medical College   (India)

^b Gandhi Hosp   (India)

^c RTM NAGPUR UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CITRIC ACID;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BURN INFECTION; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; ELECTRIC BURN; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SKIN GRAFT; TIME; TOPICAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION;

ADMINISTRATION, TOPICAL; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BURNS, ELECTRIC; CITRIC ACID; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; IRRIGATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTIONS; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 0032143363     PISSN: 03054179     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0305-4179(98)00052-7     Document Type: Article

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