External decontamination of wild leeches with hypochloric acid

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 4, Issue , 2004, Pages

  Aydin, Atakan ^a   Nazik, Hasan ^a   Kuvat, Samet Vasfi ^a   Gurler, Nezahat ^a   Ongen, Betigul ^a   Tuncer, Serdar ^a   Hocaoglu, Emre ^a   Kesim, Sinan Nur ^a  

^a ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; AMPICILLIN; AZTREONAM; CEFAZOLIN; CEFEPIME; CEFOXITIN; CEFTRIAXONE; CEFUROXIME; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; COTRIMOXAZOLE; GENTAMICIN; HYPOCHLORITE; IMIPENEM; MEROPENEM; NETILMICIN; NORFLOXACIN; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; SULPERAZON; SULTAMICILLIN; TOBRAMYCIN; HYPOCHLOROUS ACID; OXIDIZING AGENT;

AEROMONAS HYDROPHILA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BLEEDING; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DILUTION; DISINFECTION; INFECTION PREVENTION; INTESTINE FLORA; LEECH; LIFESTYLE; MOUTH FLORA; NONHUMAN; RAT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SUCKING; SURGICAL WARD; TRANSPORT MEDIUM; AEROMONAS; ANIMAL; DRUG EFFECT; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HIRUDO MEDICINALIS; LEECHING; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; STANDARD;

AEROMONAS; ANIMALS; DISINFECTION; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HIRUDO MEDICINALIS; HYPOCHLOROUS ACID; LEECHING; OXIDANTS; RATS;

EID: 10444274902     PISSN: 14712334     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-4-28     Document Type: Article

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