The value of chemoprophylaxis against Enterococcus species in elective cholecystectomy: A randomized study of cefuroxime vs ampicillin-sulbactam

Archives of Surgery

Volumn 141, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1162-1167

  Dervisoglou, Athanasios ^a   Tsiodras, Sotirios ^b   Kanellakopoulou, Kyriaki ^b   Pinis, Stamatios ^a   Galanakis, Nearchos ^a   Pierakakis, Stephanos ^a   Giannakakis, Panagiotis ^a   Liveranou, Stavroula ^a   Ntasiou, Panagiota ^a   Karampali, Efstathia ^a   Iordanou, Christos ^a   Giamarellou, Helen ^a,b  

^a Agios Panteleimon State General Hospital   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEFUROXIME; SULTAMICILLIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BILIARY TRACT SURGERY; CHEMOPROPHYLAXIS; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFICACY; ENTEROCOCCUS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SURGICAL INFECTION; WOUND DRAINAGE;

AMPICILLIN; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CEFUROXIME; CHEMOPREVENTION; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; ENTEROCOCCUS; FEMALE; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SULBACTAM; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, ELECTIVE; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 33845609738     PISSN: 00040010     EISSN: 15383644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archsurg.141.12.1162     Document Type: Article

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