Microbiology and management of human and animal bite wound infections

Primary Care - Clinics in Office Practice

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 25-39

  Brook, Itzhak ^a  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; AMPICILLIN; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; AZITHROMYCIN; CEFOXITIN; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; CLARITHROMYCIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; GATIFLOXACIN; MOXIFLOXACIN; OXACILLIN; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; TETRACYCLINE; TIMENTIN;

ABSCESS; AEROBIC BACTERIUM; ANAEROBIC BACTERIUM; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; BACTERIAL ARTHRITIS; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BITE WOUND; BRAIN ABSCESS; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR CLOTTING; ENDOCARDITIS; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; LYMPHANGITIS; MENINGITIS; MOUTH FLORA; NONHUMAN; OSTEOMYELITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEPSIS; SKIN FLORA; SUTURING METHOD; TENOSYNOVITIS; WOUND CARE; WOUND DRESSING; WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 0037357509     PISSN: 00954543     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0095-4543(02)00056-8     Document Type: Review

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