Overwhelming septic infection with a multi-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) after total knee replacement

Archives of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery

Volumn 123, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 429-432

  Roth, Andreas ^a   Fuhrmann, Reneè ^a   Lange, Martina ^b   Mollenhauer, J ^a   Straube, Eberhard ^a   Venbrocks, R ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b Rudolf Elle Krankenhaus   (Germany)

Author keywords

Multiresistant; Septic infection; Staph aureus; Total knee replacement

Indexed keywords

CEFTAZIDIME; CEFUROXIME; CIPROFLOXACIN; FLUCONAZOLE; GENTAMICIN; INSULIN; LEVOFLOXACIN; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; ORAL ANTIDIABETIC AGENT; TOBRAMYCIN; VANCOMYCIN;

AGED; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; KNEE ARTHRITIS; KNEE ARTHROPLASTY; KNEE ENDOPROSTHESIS; LEG AMPUTATION; MYCOSIS; NECROTIZING FASCIITIS; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPTIC SHOCK; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; TOTAL KNEE REPLACEMENT; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; VARUS DEFORMITY; WALKING AID;

AGED; ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, KNEE; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; KNEE PROSTHESIS; PROSTHESIS-RELATED INFECTIONS; SHOCK, SEPTIC; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS;

EID: 0242636575     PISSN: 09368051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00402-003-0535-7     Document Type: Article

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