Experience with a bone bank operation and allograft bone infection in recipients at a medical centre in southern Taiwan

Journal of Hospital Infection

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 293-297

  Liu, J W ^a   Chao, L H ^a   Su, L H ^a   Wang, J W ^a   Wang, C J ^a  

^a CHANG GUNG MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Allograft bone; Allograft bone processing; Antibiotic prophylaxis; Bone bank; Contamination rate; Infection rate

Indexed keywords

CEFALOTIN; CEFAZOLIN; CEPHALOSPORIN; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BONE ALLOGRAFT; BONE INFECTION; CADAVER DONOR; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INSTRUMENT STERILIZATION; LIVING DONOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL AUDIT; MEDICAL RECORD; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENICITY; PATIENT SELECTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECIPIENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TAIWAN; TISSUE PRESERVATION; ADULT; AGED; ALLOTRANSPLANTATION; BACTERIUM; BONE TRANSPLANTATION; CHILD; CROSS INFECTION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED;

ADULT; AGED; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIA; BONE BANKS; BONE TRANSPLANTATION; CHILD; CROSS INFECTION; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STERILIZATION; TAIWAN; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS;

EID: 0036547408     PISSN: 01956701     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/jhin.2002.1192     Document Type: Article

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