Acinetobacter infection: What was the true impact during the Vietnam conflict?

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 383-384

  Murray, Clinton K ^a   Yun, Heather C ^b   Griffith, Matthew E ^a   Hospenthal, Duane R ^a   Tong, Myron J ^c  

^a BROOKE ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b WILFORD HALL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACINETOBACTER; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; HUMAN; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; WAR; WOUND INFECTION;

ACINETOBACTER INFECTIONS; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; VIETNAM CONFLICT; WAR; WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 33746088432     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/505601     Document Type: Short Survey

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