Early bacterial and inflammatory responses to antibiotic therapy in a model of polymicrobial peritonitis in rats

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Volumn 4, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 701-709

  Montmvers, Philippe ^a,b   Mohler, Jacqueline ^a   Maulin, Laurence ^a   Carbon, Claude ^a  

^a BICHAT HOSPITAL   (France)

^b AMIENS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

Anaerobes; Animal model; Antibiotic; Combination therapy; Cytokines; Empirical therapy; Enterococci; Peritonitis

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; GENTAMICIN; IMIPENEM; ORNIDAZOLE; PEFLOXACIN;

ANAEROBIC BACTERIUM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL PERITONITIS; BACTEROIDES FRAGILIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG CHOICE; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; INFLAMMATION; INTRAMUSCULAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PERITONEAL FLUID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTEROIDES FRAGILIS; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0032406263     PISSN: 1198743X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-0691.1998.tb00655.x     Document Type: Article

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