Beta-haemolytic Streptococcus infection in burns

Burns

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 242-246

  Bang, Rameshwar L ^a   Gang, Raj K ^b   Sanyal, Suhas C ^b   Mokaddas, Eman M ^b   Lari, Abdul Reda A ^b  

^a KUWAIT UNIVERSITY   (Kuwait)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; PENICILLIN G;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BETA HEMOLYTIC STREPTOCOCCUS; BLOOD CULTURE; BURN; CELLULITIS; CHILD; DRUG EFFICACY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; SEPSIS; SKIN GRAFT; STREPTOCOCCUS GROUP A; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; THROAT CULTURE; WOUND HEALING;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BURNS; COMORBIDITY; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; KUWAIT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOSE; PHARYNX; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEX DISTRIBUTION; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0032939335     PISSN: 03054179     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0305-4179(98)00167-3     Document Type: Article

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