Skin and Soft Tissue Infections

Primary Care - Clinics in Office Practice

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 697-710

  Rogers, Robert L ^a   Perkins, Jack ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; CEFALEXIN; CLINDAMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DALFOPRISTIN PLUS QUINUPRISTIN; DAPTOMYCIN; DICLOXACILLIN; DOXYCYCLINE; LINEZOLID; MINOCYCLINE; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; SULTAMICILLIN;

ABSCESS DRAINAGE; CELLULITIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DEBRIDEMENT; EMERGENCY WARD; EVALUATION; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MICROBIOLOGY; MORALITY; MORBIDITY; NECROTIZING FASCIITIS; OUTPATIENT; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOGRAPHY; REVIEW; SKIN ABSCESS; SKIN INFECTION; SOFT TISSUE INFECTION;

ABSCESS; CELLULITIS; CROSS INFECTION; DIAGNOSTIC TESTS, ROUTINE; FASCIITIS, NECROTIZING; HUMANS; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; SKIN DISEASES, INFECTIOUS; SOFT TISSUE INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33750580258     PISSN: 00954543     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pop.2006.06.005     Document Type: Review

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