Editorial: Minimizing Resistance And Maximizing Outcomes In Surgical Patients Through Appropriate Antibiotic Use

Surgical Infections

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 1-2

  Barie, Philip S ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; HUMAN; SURGICAL INFECTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0034592856     PISSN: 10962964     EISSN: 15578674     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/109629600321236     Document Type: Editorial

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