Skin and soft tissue infections (Patera Foot) in immigrants, Spain

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 598-600

  Ternavasio De La Vega, Hugo Guillermo ^a   Angel Moreno, Alfonso ^b   Hernández Cabrera, Michele ^c   Pisos Álamo, Elena ^c   Bolaños Rivero, Margarita ^c,d   Carranza Rodriguez, Cristina ^c,d   Calderín Ortega, Antonio ^c   Pérez Arellano, Jose Luis ^d  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO DE SALAMANCA   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO PUERTA DE HIERRO   (Spain)

^c HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO INSULAR DE GRAN CANARIA   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LAS PALMAS DE GRAN CANARIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINOGLYCOSIDE; AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; AZTREONAM; CEFOTAXIME; CEFTAZIDIME; CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; IMIPENEM; LINEZOLID; MEROPENEM; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM;

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADULT; ALLOPATHY; AMPUTATION; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BLOOD EXAMINATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DEBRIDEMENT; DEHYDRATION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENTEROBACTER CLOACAE; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; MALE; MORGANELLA MORGANII; PATERA FOOT; PATHOGENESIS; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PROTEUS VULGARIS; RHABDOMYOLYSIS; SHEWANELLA; SHEWANELLA ALGAE; SKIN ALLOGRAFT; SKIN CULTURE; SKIN INFECTION; SOFT TISSUE INFECTION; SPAIN; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; AMPUTATION; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; DERMATITIS; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; FOOT; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; LEG; MALE; SHEWANELLA; SHIPS; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; SOFT TISSUE INFECTIONS; SPAIN; SYNDROME; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 65349194564     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1504.081457     Document Type: Article

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