Microbiology of surgical site infections and associated antimicrobial use among Vietnamese orthopedic and neurosurgical patients

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 27, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 855-862

  Thu, Le Thi Anh ^a   Sohn, Annette H ^b   Tien, Nguyen Phuc ^a   Mai, Vo Thi Chi ^a   Van Nho, Vo ^a   Hanh, Tran Nguyen Trinh ^a   Ewald, Ben ^c   Dibley, Michael ^c  

^a CHO RAY HOSPITAL   (Viet Nam)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMINOGLYCOSIDE; AMINOPENICILLIN; AMOXICILLIN; AMPICILLIN; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; CEFAPIRIN; CEFAZOLIN; CEFOPERAZONE; CEFOTAXIME; CEFTAZIDIME; CEFTRIAXONE; CEPHALOSPORIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLINDAMYCIN; COLISTIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; GENTAMICIN; IMIPENEM; LINCOMYCIN; NETILMICIN; OFLOXACIN; OXACILLIN; PEFLOXACIN; PENICILLIN G DERIVATIVE; QUINOLONE DERIVATIVE; TOBRAMYCIN; UNINDEXED DRUG; VANCOMYCIN;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DRUG USE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; ORTHOPEDICS; PATHOGENESIS; PROPHYLAXIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SURGICAL INFECTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ADULT; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; CROSS INFECTION; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROSURGERY; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; ORTHOPEDIC PROCEDURES; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; VIETNAM;

EID: 33748255458     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/506400     Document Type: Article

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