Postneurosurgical nosocomial bacterial brain abscess in adults

Infection

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 247-251

  Yang, K Y ^a   Chang, W N ^a   Ho, J T ^a   Wang, H C ^a   Lu, C H ^a  

^a CHANG GUNG UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BRAIN ABSCESS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FATALITY; FEMALE; FEVER; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; MALE; MORTALITY; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATION; NEUROSURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BACTERIA; BRAIN ABSCESS; CROSS INFECTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 33749832962     PISSN: 03008126     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s15010-006-5607-5     Document Type: Article

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