Severe skin and soft tissue infections and associated critical illness

Current Infectious Disease Reports

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 415-421

  Vinh, Donald C ^b   Embil, John M ^a  

^a HEALTH SCIENCES CENTRE   (Canada)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AZTREONAM; BETA LACTAMASE INHIBITOR; BOTULINUM ANTISERUM; CARBAPENEM DERIVATIVE; CEFAZOLIN; CEFOTAXIME; CEFTRIAXONE; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLINDAMYCIN; CLOXACILLIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; MEROPENEM; METRONIDAZOLE; OXYGEN; PENICILLIN G; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; TETANUS ANTIBODY; TETRACYCLINE DERIVATIVE;

AEROMONAS; AMPUTATION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BETA HEMOLYTIC STREPTOCOCCUS; CELLULITIS; CLOSTRIDIUM; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; CLOSTRIDIUM SEPTICUM; CLOSTRIDIUM SORDELLII; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DEBRIDEMENT; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG MEGADOSE; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EDWARDSIELLA TARDA; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ERYSIPELOTHRIX RHUSIOPATHIAE; GAS GANGRENE; HOSPITALIZATION; HOST RESISTANCE; HUMAN; HYPERBARIC OXYGEN; INTENSIVE CARE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MUSCLE NECROSIS; NECROTIZING FASCIITIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOGENICITY; PLESIOMONAS SHIGELLOIDES; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SEPTIC SHOCK; SKIN INFECTION; SKIN SURGERY; SOFT TISSUE INFECTION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS INIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; TISSUE CULTURE; TOXIC SHOCK SYNDROME; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT PLANNING; VIBRIO; WATER CONTAMINATION; WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 34548793588     PISSN: 15233847     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11908-007-0064-6     Document Type: Review

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