Trauma, head injury, and neurosurgery infections

Seminars in Respiratory Infections

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 280-286

  Boque, Maria Carme ^a   Bodi, Maria ^a   Rello, Jordi ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI JOAN XXIII   (Spain)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CATHETER INFECTION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM INFECTION; HEAD INJURY; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; LIQUORRHEA; MENINGITIS; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SEPSIS; SINUSITIS; SPINAL CORD INJURY; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 0034491436     PISSN: 08820546     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/srin.2000.20935     Document Type: Article

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