Bacteriology of surgical wound infections in a tertiary care hospital in Turkey

East African Medical Journal

Volumn 82, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 331-336

  Surucuoglu, S ^a   Gazi, H ^a   Kurutepe, S ^a   Ozkutuk, N ^a   Ozbakkaloglu, B ^a  

^a CELAL BAYAR UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; DRUG EFFECT; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICS; SURGICAL INFECTION; TURKEY (REPUBLIC); UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; TURKEY;

EID: 27544441569     PISSN: 0012835X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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