Risk factors for surgical site infection in kidney transplant recipients

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 29, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 771-773

  De Menezes, Fernando Gatti ^a,b   Wey, Sérgio B ^a   Peres, Clóvis A ^a   Medina Pestana, José O ^a   Camargo, Luis Fernando A ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b NONE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE GRAFT REJECTION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BODY MASS; CHILD; CHRONIC GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HUMAN; KIDNEY GRAFT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; RECIPIENT; REOPERATION; RISK FACTOR; SURGICAL INFECTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BRAZIL; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HOSPITAL BED CAPACITY, UNDER 100; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 50949128368     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/589725     Document Type: Article

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