A survey of common pathogens in wound in patients at University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital (U.P.T.H.), Port Harcourt

West African Journal of Medicine

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 50-54

  Wariso, B A ^a   Nwachukwu, C O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORT HARCOURT   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

Pathogen; Survey; Wound

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; CEFTAZIDIME; CEFUROXIME AXETIL; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; OFLOXACIN; PENICILLIN G; STREPTOMYCIN; TETRACYCLINE;

AGE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BETA HEMOLYTIC STREPTOCOCCUS; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; FUNGUS CULTURE; FUNGUS ISOLATION; GENDER; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; KLEBSIELLA; NIGERIA; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PROTEUS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS; TEACHING HOSPITAL; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; WARD; WOUND INFECTION; CROSS INFECTION; FEMALE; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HOSPITAL SUBDIVISIONS AND COMPONENTS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; STATISTICS;

CANDIDA ALBICANS; CROSS INFECTION; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; HOSPITAL UNITS; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; MALE; NIGERIA; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 0042709911     PISSN: 0189160X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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