Impetigo in soldiers after hand-to-hand combat training

Military Medicine

Volumn 170, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 972-974

  Lejbkowicz, Flavio ^a,b   Samet, Luisa ^a   Belavsky, Larissa ^a   Bitterman Deutsch, Ora ^a  

^a WESTERN GALILEE HOSPITAL   (Israel)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEFAZOLIN; CEFTRIAXONE; CEFUROXIME; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLINDAMYCIN; CLOXACILLIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ERYTHROMYCIN; FUSIDIC ACID; GENTAMICIN; OFLOXACIN; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; PSEUDOMONIC ACID; RIFAMPICIN; TETRACYCLINE; VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BETA HEMOLYTIC STREPTOCOCCUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONVALESCENCE; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EPIDEMIC; EQUIPMENT; HUMAN; HYGIENE; IMPETIGO; MILITARY PHENOMENA; NONHUMAN; SKIN INFECTION; SOLDIER; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; SYSTEMIC THERAPY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 27744472271     PISSN: 00264075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7205/MILMED.170.11.972     Document Type: Article

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