Multi-drug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii intra-abdominal abscess

Surgical Infections

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 345-347

  Goh, Brian K P ^a,b   Alkouder, Ghassan ^a   Lama, Thichen K ^a   Tan, Carolyn E L ^a  

^a KK WOMEN'S AND CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

^b SINGAPORE GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEFTRIAXONE; GENTAMICIN; METRONIDAZOLE;

ABDOMINAL ABSCESS; ABDOMINAL INFECTION; ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDIX PERFORATION; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; MALE; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SURGICAL INFECTION;

ABDOMINAL ABSCESS; ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ACINETOBACTER INFECTIONS; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDICITIS; CHILD; CROSS INFECTION; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MALE; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 27844481476     PISSN: 10962964     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/sur.2005.6.345     Document Type: Article

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