Perioperative antibiotic prophylaxis: A critical review

Surgical Infections

Volumn 7, Issue SUPPL. 2, 2006, Pages

  De Lalla, Fausto ^a  

^a SAN BORTOLO HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINOGLYCOSIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEFAMANDOLE; CEFAZOLIN; CEFOTETAN; CEFUROXIME; CEPHALOSPORIN; CLINDAMYCIN; METRONIDAZOLE; POLYPEPTIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ABDOMINAL HYSTERECTOMY; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COAGULASE NEGATIVE STAPHYLOCOCCUS; COLORECTAL SURGERY; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG INDICATION; DRUG SAFETY; ENTEROCOCCUS; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GYNECOLOGIC SURGERY; HUMAN; META ANALYSIS; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; NONHUMAN; OBSTETRIC OPERATION; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRESCRIPTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHESIS INFECTION; REVIEW; SHORT COURSE THERAPY; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; CEFAZOLIN; CROSS INFECTION; GLYCOPEPTIDES; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 33748038350     PISSN: 10962964     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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