Infections Associated with War: the American Forces Experience in Iraq and Afghanistan

Clinical Microbiology Newsletter

Volumn 30, Issue 18, 2008, Pages 135-140

  Aronson, Naomi E ^a  

^a UNIFORMED SERVICES UNIVERSITY OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMPHOTERICIN B; AMPHOTERICIN B LIPID COMPLEX; CARBAPENEM; CEFEPIME; CEFTAZIDIME; CIPROFLOXACIN; IMIPENEM; MEROPENEM; STIBOGLUCONATE SODIUM; SULTAMICILLIN; TOBRAMYCIN;

AFGHANISTAN; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARBOVIRUS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BATTLE INJURY; BRUCELLOSIS; DIARRHEA; HUMAN; INFECTION; IRAQ; MALARIA; NONHUMAN; PNEUMONIA; Q FEVER; SKIN LEISHMANIASIS; TUBERCULOSIS; VISCERAL LEISHMANIASIS; WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 50849112081     PISSN: 01964399     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinmicnews.2008.08.004     Document Type: Article

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