Preventing methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infections in cardiovascular surgery patients: Can we do any better?

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 38, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 1561-1563

  Baum, Sue E ^a   Dooley, David P ^b  

^a WILLIAM BEAUMONT ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b BROOKE ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METICILLIN; PSEUDOMONIC ACID;

BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CANDIDA; CARDIOVASCULAR SURGERY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; INTERNAL MAMMARY ARTERY; MEDIASTINITIS; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; NONHUMAN; NOTE; OPERATION DURATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; SURGICAL PATIENT;

CARDIOVASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES; HUMANS; METHICILLIN; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 2942560480     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/420828     Document Type: Note

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