Aerobic bacterial isolates from burn wound infections and their antibiograms - A five-year study

Burns

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 241-243

  Agnihotri, N ^a,b   Gupta, V ^a   Joshi, R M ^a  

^a GOVERNMENT MEDICAL COLLEGE AND HOSPITAL   (India)

^b PANJAB UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Antibiograms; Bacteriology; Burn wound infections

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMOXICILLIN; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; CARBENICILLIN; CEFALEXIN; CEFOTAXIME; CEFTAZIDIME; CEFTRIAXONE; CIPROFLOXACIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; NETILMICIN; PIPERACILLIN; TOBRAMYCIN;

ACINETOBACTER; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BURN; DRUG EFFICACY; ENTEROBACTER; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INDIA; KLEBSIELLA; PROTEUS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PUS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

BACTERIA, AEROBIC; BURNS; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SUPPURATION; WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 1842634450     PISSN: 03054179     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.burns.2003.11.010     Document Type: Article

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