Review article: Animal bites: An update for management with a focus on infections

EMA - Emergency Medicine Australasia

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 458-467

  Dendle, Claire ^b   Looke, David ^a,c  

^a PRINCESS ALEXANDRA HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b AUSTIN HEALTH   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Animal bite; Australian bat lyssavirus; Human bite

Indexed keywords

CEFTAZIDIME; CEPHALOSPORIN; CLINDAMYCIN; DOXYCYCLINE; ERYTHROMYCIN; FLUCLOXACILLIN; METRONIDAZOLE; PENICILLIN G; VALACICLOVIR;

ALLIGATOR; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; BAT; BITE; BITE WOUND; BREED; BREEDING; CAMEL; CAT; COW; DENTITION; DOG; DRUG COST; FATALITY; FISH; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HORSE; HUMAN; IMMUNIZATION; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFECTION RISK; LIZARD; MARSUPIAL; MONKEY; MOUTH FLORA; PASTEURELLA; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHYLAXIS; PUBLIC HEALTH PROBLEM; REPTILE; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; RODENT; SEAL; SNAKE; SWINE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TURTLE; ANIMAL; AUSTRALIA; BITES AND STINGS; COMPLICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; WOUND INFECTION;

ANIMALS; AUSTRALIA; BITES AND STINGS; HUMANS; WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 58149296273     PISSN: 17426731     EISSN: 17426723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-6723.2008.01130.x     Document Type: Review

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