The use of antibiotics in simple soft-tissue trauma [1]

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 115, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 332-333

  Misra, Alok ^a,b   Iqbal, Mazhar ^a   Misra, Shivani ^a  

^a GEORGE ELIOT HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFECTION RISK; LETTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOFT TISSUE INFECTION; SOFT TISSUE INJURY; WOUND INFECTION;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; GUINEA PIGS; HUMANS; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; IRRIGATION; SOFT TISSUE INFECTIONS; SOFT TISSUE INJURIES; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 13244264704     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.PRS.0000146061.86576.B2     Document Type: Letter

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