Use of tobramycin-impregnated calcium sulphate pellets in addition to oral antibiotics [2]

Diabetes Care

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 181-182

  Salgami, Eleanna V ^a   Bowling, Frank L ^a   Whitehouse, Richard W ^a   Boulton, Andrew J M ^a,b  

^a MANCHESTER ROYAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CALCIUM SULFATE; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLINDAMYCIN; POLY(METHYL METHACRYLATE); TOBRAMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTHROPLASTY; BONE RADIOGRAPHY; BONE REMODELING; CLINICAL TRIAL; DIABETIC FOOT; DRUG BIOAVAILABILITY; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM; DRUG POTENTIATION; DRUG USE; FOOT AMPUTATION; HUMAN; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; LETTER; OSTEOMYELITIS; WOUND HEALING;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ADMINISTRATION, TOPICAL; AMPUTATION; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; DIABETIC FOOT; HUMANS; OSTEOMYELITIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; TOBRAMYCIN;

EID: 33845980573     PISSN: 01495992     EISSN: 01495992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2337/dc06-1792     Document Type: Letter

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