Bacillus cereus: The forgotten pathogen

Surgical Infections

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 305-308

  Pillai, Anand ^a,b   Thomas, Stephanie ^a   Arora, Jayant ^a  

^a DUMFRIES AND GALLOWAY ROYAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; CEFUROXIME; CIPROFLOXACIN; FLUCLOXACILLIN; PENICILLIN G;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACILLUS CEREUS; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMMINUTED FRACTURE; DRUG DOSE REGIMEN; DRUG TREATMENT FAILURE; EMERGENCY SURGERY; FASCIOTOMY; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; LABORATORY TEST; MALE; NONHUMAN; OPEN REDUCTION; ORTHOPEDICS; OSTEOSYNTHESIS; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL INFECTION; TIBIA FRACTURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; BACILLUS CEREUS; FRACTURES, COMMINUTED; HUMANS; MALE; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; TIBIAL FRACTURES;

EID: 33746882798     PISSN: 10962964     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/sur.2006.7.305     Document Type: Article

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