Implantable insulin pumps: Infections most due to seeding from skin flora determine severe outcomes of pump-pocket seromas

Diabetes and Metabolism

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 62-65

  Renard, E ^a   Rostane, T ^a   Carriere, C ^a   Marchandin, H ^a   Jacques Apostol, D ^a   Lauton, D ^a   Gibert Boulet, F ^a   Bringer, J ^a  

^a LAPEYRONIE HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

Implantable insulin pumps; Pulsed field gel electrophoresis; Pump pocket complications; Staphylococcus epidermidis

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; INSULIN;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMPLANTATION; INFECTION; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; INSULIN PUMP; MALE; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SEROMA; SKIN FLORA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 1; DNA, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; FEMALE; GROIN; HUMANS; INSULIN INFUSION SYSTEMS; MALE; SKIN; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; UMBILICUS;

EID: 0035095117     PISSN: 12623636     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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