Toxin A-producing Clostridium difficile as an aetiological factor of post-traumatic wound infection

Journal of Medical Microbiology

Volumn 58, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 963-964

  Deptuła, Aleksander ^a   Kruszyńska, Ewa ^a   Mikucka, Agnieszka ^a   Gospodarek, Eugenia ^a   Olszewski, Krzysztof ^a   Kruczyński, Jacek ^a   Ma̧tewski, Dariusz ^a  

^a NICOLAUS COPERNICUS UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; CEFAZOLIN; CLINDAMYCIN; CLOSTRIDIUM TOXIN; IMIPENEM; METRONIDAZOLE; PIPERACILLIN; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; TEICOPLANIN; TOXIN A; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CLOSTRIDIUM INFECTION; FEMALE; FEMUR FRACTURE; FISTULA; FRACTURE FIXATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; OPEN REDUCTION; OSTEOSYNTHESIS; PATHOGENESIS; POSTTRAUMATIC COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUS; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; WOUND INFECTION;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADULT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; BONE SCREWS; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CLOSTRIDIUM INFECTIONS; ENTEROTOXINS; FEMALE; FEMORAL FRACTURES; FRACTURE FIXATION, INTERNAL; HIP FRACTURES; HUMANS; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 67650138194     PISSN: 00222615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/jmm.0.008797-0     Document Type: Article

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