Microbiology of the infected knee arthroplasty: Report from the Swedish Knee Arthroplasty Register on 426 surgically revised cases

Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 41, Issue 11-12, 2009, Pages 831-840

  Stefánsdóttir, Anna ^a   Johansson, Daniel ^a   Knutson, Kaj ^a   Lidgren, Lars ^a   Robertsson, Otto ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; CEFOTAXIME; CEFUROXIME; CEPHALOSPORINASE; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLINDAMYCIN; CLOXACILLIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DICLOXACILLIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; FUSIDIC ACID; GENTAMICIN; IMIPENEM; NETILMICIN; OXACILLIN; PENICILLIN G; PENICILLIN V; PIPERACILLIN; RIFAMPICIN; TAZOBACTAM; TOBRAMYCIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; COAGULASE NEGATIVE STAPHYLOCOCCUS; ENTEROCOCCUS; FEMALE; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HUMAN; IMPLANT; KNEE ARTHROPLASTY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MICROBIOLOGY; OSTEOARTHRITIS; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; PREVALENCE; PROSTHESIS INFECTION; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; SURGICAL INFECTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, KNEE; FEMALE; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; HUMANS; KNEE JOINT; MALE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; SWEDEN; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 70450164233     PISSN: 00365548     EISSN: 16511980     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/00365540903186207     Document Type: Article

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