Unusual pathogens and multidrug-resistant bacteria in tsunami survivors [4]

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 889-890

  Garbino, Jorge ^a   Garzoni, Christian ^a  

^a GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ACINETOBACTER; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BRAIN ABSCESS; DISASTER; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; LETTER; MICROSPORUM; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; MYCOBACTERIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS; SCEDOSPORIUM APIOSPERMUM; SOFT TISSUE INFECTION; TSUNAMI;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIA; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; NATURAL DISASTERS; SKIN DISEASES, INFECTIOUS; SOFT TISSUE INFECTIONS; SURVIVORS; WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 33644838917     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/500456     Document Type: Letter

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