Surgical wound infection: Epidemiology, pathogenesis, diagnosis and management

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 6, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Rubin, Robert H ^a,b,c  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

BLEEDING; DIABETES MELLITUS; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HEMOSTASIS; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOST RESISTANCE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTION RISK; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MORBIDITY; NOTE; OBESITY; OUTPATIENT; PATHOGENESIS; SURGICAL INFECTION; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANT ENTEROCOCCUS;

HUMANS; RISK FACTORS; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 33845629336     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-6-171     Document Type: Note

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