Chlorhexidine body washing plus topical polymyxin/tobramycin [4] (multiple letters)

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 33, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1672-1673

  Dewachter, Pascale ^a   Mouton Faivre, Claudie ^a   Mertes, Paul Michel ^a   Camus, Christophe ^b   Thomas, Rémi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF NANCY   (France)

^b PONTCHAILLOU UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORHEXIDINE; POLYMYXIN; PSEUDOMONIC ACID; TOBRAMYCIN;

ANAPHYLACTIC SHOCK; BRONCHOSPASM; CLEANING; CONTACT DERMATITIS; DELAYED HYPERSENSITIVITY; DRUG SAFETY; HEART ARREST; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; IMMEDIATE TYPE HYPERSENSITIVITY; INFECTION; LETTER; MUCOSA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHOCK; SKIN DECONTAMINATION; SKIN TEST;

EID: 22144442116     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.CCM.0000170194.67542.1C     Document Type: Letter

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