Infectious complications after mass disasters: The Marmara earthquake experience

Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 110-113

  Keven, Kenan ^a   Ates, Kenan ^a   Sever, Mehmet Sukru ^b   Yenicesu, Mujdat ^c   Canbakan, Basol ^d   Arinsoy, Turgay ^e   Ozdemir, Nurhan ^f   Duranay, Murat ^g   Altun, Bulent ^h   Erek, Ekrem ⁱ  

^a ANKARA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c GULHANE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

^d ANKARA NUMUNE HOSPITAL   (Turkey)

^e GAZI UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

^f BASKENT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^g Social Security Hospital   (Turkey)

^h HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

ⁱ ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACINETOBACTER; AEROBIC BACTERIUM; ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CITROBACTER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRUSH SYNDROME; DISASTER; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EARTHQUAKE; ENTEROBACTER; ENTEROCOCCUS; FEMALE; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; KLEBSIELLA; LUNG INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL RECORD; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PSEUDOMONAS; SEPSIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; TURKEY (REPUBLIC); WOUND INFECTION;

BACTEREMIA; CRUSH SYNDROME; FEMALE; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; NATURAL DISASTERS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROBABILITY; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURVIVAL RATE; TURKEY; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS;

EID: 0037237805     PISSN: 00365548     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0036554021000027013     Document Type: Article

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