Mycobacterium fortuitum infections in surgical wounds

Medical Journal Armed Forces India

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 91-92

  Lahiri, Kunal K ^a   Jena, J ^b   Pannicker, K K ^c  

^a Naval Research Board   (India)

^b DDMS (HQ) Eastern Command   (India)

^c MILITARY HOSPITAL   (India)

Author keywords

Mycobacterium fortuitum; Surgical wounds

Indexed keywords

AGAR; AMIKACIN; CEFOXITIN; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLARITHROMYCIN; FUCHSINE; IMIPENEM; POLYMYXIN B;

ABDOMINAL PRESSURE; ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM COLONY; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EXUDATE; FEMALE; FUNGUS; HEPATOMEGALY; HEPATOSPLENOMEGALY; HERNIORRHAPHY; HUMAN; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM FORTUITUM; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PAIN; PARANASAL SINUS DISEASE; SALPINGECTOMY; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; SUPPURATION; SURGICAL EQUIPMENT; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURGICAL WOUND; SWELLING; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 70349227442     PISSN: 03771237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0377-1237(09)80073-7     Document Type: Article

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