Antimicrobial susceptibility pattern of bacterial isolates from post-operative wound infections

Indian Journal of Pathology and Microbiology

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 266-269

  Arya, Muktanjali ^a   Arya, Prafull K ^a   Biswas, Debasis ^a   Prasad, Ramji ^a  

^a HIMALAYAN INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Antibiogram; Post operative wound infections

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; AMPICILLIN; CARBENICILLIN; CEFALEXIN; CEFOTAXIME; CEFTAZIDIME; CEFTRIAXONE; CEFUROXIME; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLAVULANIC ACID; CLINDAMYCIN; CLOXACILLIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; NETILMICIN; OFLOXACIN; PENICILLIN G; PIPERACILLIN; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; TETRACYCLINE; VANCOMYCIN; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ACINETOBACTER; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; NONHUMAN; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; WOUND INFECTION; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM; DRUG EFFECT; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; SURGICAL INFECTION;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; HUMANS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 33746095465     PISSN: 03774929     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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