Nosocomial infections in an Iranian burn care center

Burns

Volumn 26, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 737-740

  Lari, Abdolaziz Rastegar ^a   Alaghehbandan, Reza ^a  

^a IRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Burns; Nosocomial infection; Pseudomonas aeruginosa

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; CEFALOTIN; SULFADIAZINE SILVER;

ACINETOBACTER; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BLOOD CULTURE; BURN; BURN INFECTION; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; WOUND INFECTION;

BURN UNITS; BURNS; COMORBIDITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS INFECTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; IRAN; MALE; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTIONS; RISK FACTORS; SAMPLING STUDIES; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0033825375     PISSN: 03054179     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0305-4179(00)00048-6     Document Type: Article

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