Wound infections caused by Vibrio vulnificus and other marine bacteria

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 133, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 383-391

  Oliver, J D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; CLARITHROMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; PENICILLIN G; QUINOLONE DERIVATIVE; SEA WATER; TETRACYCLINE;

AEROMONAS HYDROPHILA; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; AUSTRALIA; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BIOTYPE; CELLULITIS; DEBRIDEMENT; DENMARK; EAR INFECTION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EPIDEMIC; ERYSIPELOTHRIX RHUSIOPATHIAE; FOOD INTAKE; GASTROINTESTINAL INFECTION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GERMANY; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; INCUBATION TIME; INFECTION PREVENTION; MORTALITY; MYCOBACTERIUM MARINUM; NEW ZEALAND; NONHUMAN; RASH; REVIEW; SEA FOOD; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEPTICEMIA; SKIN DEFECT; SPAIN; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; SURVIVAL RATE; SWEDEN; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TAIWAN; VIBRIO ALGINOLYTICUS; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; VIBRIO PARAHAEMOLYTICUS; VIBRIO VULNIFICUS; WOUND INFECTION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANIMAL; CHILD; EUROPE; FEMALE; FOOD CONTROL; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMALS; AUSTRALIA; CHILD; EUROPE; FEMALE; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEAFOOD; TAIWAN; UNITED STATES; VIBRIO INFECTIONS; VIBRIO VULNIFICUS; WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 20844455738     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268805003894     Document Type: Review

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