Early burn related gram positive systemic infection in children admitted to a pediatric surgical ward

Burns

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 352-356

  Serour, Francis ^a,b   Stein, Michal ^a,b   Gorenstein, Arkadi ^a,b   Somekh, Eli ^a,b  

^a WOLFSON MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Burn; Children; Gram positive systemic infection; Toxic shock syndrome

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CHLORAMPHENICOL; PREDNISONE; THREOLONE; TOXIN;

ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BLOOD CULTURE; BODY SURFACE; BURN INFECTION; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; FACE BURN; FEMALE; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INFANT; INFECTION RISK; MALE; PEDIATRIC SURGERY; RANDOMIZATION; RASH; RISK FACTOR; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; STREPTOCOCCUS GROUP A; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; SURGICAL WARD;

BURNS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SHOCK, SEPTIC; WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 33645079135     PISSN: 03054179     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.burns.2005.10.019     Document Type: Article

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