Spectrum of spine infections in patients with HIV: A case report and review of the literature

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

Volumn 444, Issue , 2006, Pages 83-91

  Bono, Christopher M ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTHRODESIS; BONE INFECTION; CASE REPORT; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONFERENCE PAPER; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION RISK; KYPHOSIS; LAMINECTOMY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINE DISEASE; SPINE INFECTION; SPINE STABILIZATION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TUBERCULOUS SPONDYLITIS; WOUND INFECTION; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; IMMUNOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; REVIEW; SURGICAL INFECTION;

HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SPINAL DISEASES; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 33646013641     PISSN: 0009921X     EISSN: 15281132     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.blo.0000203450.28899.ef     Document Type: Conference Paper

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