Hospital management of animal and human bites

Journal of Hospital Infection

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 1-10

  Morgan, Marina ^a  

^a ROYAL DEVON AND EXETER NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Animal bites; Infections

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BETA LACTAM; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CEFOXITIN; CEPHALOSPORIN; CILASTATIN PLUS IMIPENEM; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLINDAMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; CREATINE KINASE; DOXYCYCLINE; ERYTHROMYCIN; FLUCLOXACILLIN; GENTAMICIN; HEPATITIS VACCINE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; LINEZOLID; METRONIDAZOLE; PENICILLIN G; PLACEBO; QUINOLONE DERIVATIVE; SNAKE VENOM; TETANUS TOXOID; TETRACYCLINE DERIVATIVE;

ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BITE; BLOOD CULTURE; CAT; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CREATINE KINASE BLOOD LEVEL; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOG BITE; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; EIKENELLA; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ENVENOMATION; FOURNIER GANGRENE; GENITAL ULCER; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; HEAD AND NECK INJURY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; INFECTIOUS ARTHRITIS; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LIMB INJURY; LIZARD; MONOTHERAPY; MORBIDITY; NONHUMAN; PENICILLIN ALLERGY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; RABBIT; RADIODIAGNOSIS; RESUSCITATION; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; RISK REDUCTION; SNAKEBITE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STREPTOCOCCUS; SWINE; SYPHILIS; TETANUS PROPHYLAXIS; TOXIC SHOCK SYNDROME; UNITED KINGDOM; VIRUS INFECTION; WOUND CARE; WOUND HEALING; WOUND INFECTION;

ADULT; ANIMALS; BITES AND STINGS; BITES, HUMAN; CHILD; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS;

EID: 23044492778     PISSN: 01956701     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhin.2005.02.007     Document Type: Review

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