Nosocomial infections

Veterinary Clinics of North America - Small Animal Practice

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 1101-1126

  Johnson, Justine A ^a  

^a Emergency and Critical Care   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINOGLYCOSIDE; AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; AMPHOTERICIN B; AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; CHLORHEXIDINE; COLISTIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; HEPARIN; METICILLIN; METOCLOPRAMIDE; METRONIDAZOLE; MINOCYCLINE; NEOMYCIN; NITROFURAL; PENICILLIN G; PIPERACILLIN; POVIDONE IODINE; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; RIFAMPICIN; SULFADIAZINE SILVER; SULFONAMIDE; TETRACYCLINE; TOBRAMYCIN; TRIMETHOPRIM; UNINDEXED DRUG; VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; CATHETER INFECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; DIARRHEA; DRUG ABSORPTION; DRUG DOSAGE FORM; DRUG EFFICACY; FEMALE; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; HAND WASHING; HOSPITAL HYGIENE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HOSPITAL PERSONNEL; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; INTENSIVE CARE; MALE; MEDICAL PROFESSION; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PREVALENCE; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; SURGICAL INFECTION; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; WOUND INFECTION; ZOONOSIS;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0036744790     PISSN: 01955616     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0195-5616(02)00038-4     Document Type: Review

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