Do Anterior Cruciate Ligament Allograft Culture Results Correlate With Clinical Infections?

Arthroscopy - Journal of Arthroscopic and Related Surgery

Volumn 23, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1100-1103

  Centeno, Joseph M ^a   Woolf, Shane ^a   Reid III, John B ^a   Lubowitz, James H ^a  

^a Taos Orthopaedic Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Allograft; Anterior cruciate ligament; Complication; Culture; Infection; Outcome

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BACITRACIN; CEFAZOLIN; CLINDAMYCIN; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ALLOGRAFT; ALPHA HEMOLYTIC STREPTOCOCCUS; ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT RECONSTRUCTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CLOSTRIDIUM; ENTEROBACTER; ENTEROCOCCUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GRAFT INFECTION; HOSPITAL COST; HUMAN; KLEBSIELLA; NONHUMAN; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS;

EID: 34748863543     PISSN: 07498063     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.arthro.2007.05.006     Document Type: Article

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