Current strategies for prevention of surgical site infections

Current Infectious Disease Reports

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 426-434

  Nichols, Ronald Lee ^a  

^a TULANE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEPHALOSPORIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; NEOMYCIN; PSEUDOMONIC ACID;

ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; DRUG CHOICE; DRUG EFFICACY; HUMAN; INFECTION PREVENTION; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURGICAL WOUND;

EID: 10244267610     PISSN: 15233847     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11908-004-0061-y     Document Type: Review

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