The role of anaerobic bacteria in mediastinitis

Drugs

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 315-320

  Brook, Itzhak ^a,b  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINOGLYCOSIDE DERIVATIVE; AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BETA LACTAMASE; BETA LACTAMASE INHIBITOR; CEFEPIME; CEPHALOSPORIN; CILASTATIN PLUS IMIPENEM; CLINDAMYCIN; IMIPENEM; LINEZOLID; MEROPENEM; METRONIDAZOLE; PENICILLIN G; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; SUGAR; SULTAMICILLIN; TIMENTIN; VANCOMYCIN; AMINOGLYCOSIDE; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE;

AEROBIC BACTERIUM; ANAEROBIC BACTERIUM; ANTIMICROBIAL THERAPY; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTEROIDACEAE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEBRIDEMENT; ESOPHAGUS PERFORATION; FLUOROSCOPY; FUSOBACTERIUM; HUMAN; MEDIASTINITIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOGENESIS; PEPTOSTREPTOCOCCACEAE; PORPHYROMONAS; PREVOTELLA; REVIEW; STERNOTOMY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; BACTEROIDES; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PEPTOSTREPTOCOCCUS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTEROIDES SP.; FUSOBACTERIUM; PEPTOSTREPTOCOCCUS; PORPHYROMONAS; PREVOTELLA;

AMINOGLYCOSIDES; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; BACTERIA, ANAEROBIC; BACTEROIDES; CEPHALOSPORINS; CLINDAMYCIN; HUMANS; MEDIASTINITIS; PENICILLINS; PEPTOSTREPTOCOCCUS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREVOTELLA;

EID: 33746067181     PISSN: 00126667     EISSN: 00126667     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2165/00003495-200666030-00004     Document Type: Review

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