Community-acquired Klebsiella pneumoniae complicated skin and soft-tissue infections of extremities: Emphasis on cirrhotic patients and gas formation

Infection

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 328-334

  Chang, C M ^a   Lee, H C ^a,b   Lee, N Y ^a   Lee, I W ^a   Wu, C J ^a   Chen, P L ^a   Lee, C C ^a   Ko, N Y ^b   Ko, W C ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; CEPHALOSPORIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; GLUCOCORTICOID; NETILMICIN; PREDNISOLONE; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOLISM; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BETA HEMOLYTIC STREPTOCOCCUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; FEVER; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; PNEUMATOSIS INTESTINALIS; PYOMYOSITIS; SHOCK; SKIN INFECTION; SOFT TISSUE INFECTION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TAIWAN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BACTERIA; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; EXTREMITIES; FEMALE; GASES; HUMANS; KLEBSIELLA INFECTIONS; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SKIN DISEASES; SOFT TISSUE INFECTIONS; TAIWAN;

EID: 50649097916     PISSN: 03008126     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s15010-008-7272-3     Document Type: Article

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