Culture-negative surgical site infections

Surgical Infections

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 555-565

  Rasnake, Mark S ^a,c   Dooley, David P ^b  

^a WILFORD HALL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b BROOKE ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; DOXYCYCLINE; ERYTHROMYCIN; GATIFLOXACIN; LEVOFLOXACIN; MACROLIDE; MOXIFLOXACIN; TETRACYCLINE DERIVATIVE;

BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; LEGIONELLA; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MYCOPLASMA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SURGICAL INFECTION; UREAPLASMA;

CULTURE MEDIA; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 33847344798     PISSN: 10962964     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/sur.2006.7.555     Document Type: Review

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