Management of human and animal bite wound infection: An overview

Current Infectious Disease Reports

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 389-395

  Brook, Itzhak ^a  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; AZITHROMYCIN; CEPHALOSPORIN; CLARITHROMYCIN; CLAVULANIC ACID; PENICILLIN G; TICARCILLIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BITE; BITE WOUND; DEBRIDEMENT; EIKENELLA CORRODENS; HEPATITIS; HERPES VIRUS; HUMAN; IMMUNIZATION; MOUTH FLORA; NONHUMAN; PASTEURELLA; PROPHYLAXIS; RABIES; REVIEW; SKIN REDNESS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS; SWELLING; SYMPTOM; TETANUS; VIBRIO; WOUND CARE; WOUND INFECTION; WOUND IRRIGATION;

EID: 69249095434     PISSN: 15233847     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11908-009-0055-x     Document Type: Review

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