Microbiology of wound infection after caesarean section in a Jordanian hospital

Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal

Volumn 9, Issue 5-6, 2003, Pages 1068-1074

  Kaplan, N M ^a   Smadi, A A ^a   Al Taani, M I ^a   El Qudah, M A ^a  

^a Queen Alia Military Hospital   (Jordan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CESAREAN SECTION; ENTEROCOCCUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GRAM STAINING; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INCIDENCE; JORDAN; KLEBSIELLA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREDICTION; PSEUDOMONAS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; WOUND INFECTION;

ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; CAUSALITY; CESAREAN SECTION; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; EXUDATES AND TRANSUDATES; FEMALE; GENTIAN VIOLET; HOSPITALS, MILITARY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFECTION CONTROL; JORDAN; KLEBSIELLA INFECTIONS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; PHENAZINES; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; SUPPURATION; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 17144410351     PISSN: 10203397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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