Device-associated infections: A macroproblem that starts with microadherence

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 33, Issue 9, 2001, Pages 1567-1572

  Darouiche, Rabih O ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADHESIN; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; BIOFILM; BLOOD VESSEL GRAFT; BREAST ENDOPROSTHESIS; CATHETER INFECTION; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETER; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DEVICE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FRACTURE FIXATION; HEART ASSIST DEVICE; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HOST; HUMAN; INDWELLING CATHETER; INFECTION PREVENTION; JOINT PROSTHESIS; MATERIAL COATING; PENIS PROSTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROVIDENCIA STUARTII; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; TOOTH IMPLANTATION; URINE CATHETER;

BACTERIAL ADHESION; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES; HUMANS;

EID: 0035503196     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/323130     Document Type: Article

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