Risk factors for pediatric ventriculoperitoneal shunt infection and predictors of infectious pathogens

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 36, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 858-862

  McGirt, Matthew J ^a   Zaas, Aimee ^a   Fuchs, Herbert E ^a   George, Timothy M ^a   Kaye, Keith ^a   Sexton, Daniel J ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN VENTRICLE PERITONEUM SHUNT; CHILD; CHILD HOSPITALIZATION; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PEDIATRIC HOSPITAL; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREDICTION; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; PROSTHESIS-RELATED INFECTIONS; RISK FACTORS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; VENTRICULOPERITONEAL SHUNT;

EID: 0037383975     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/368191     Document Type: Article

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