Community-acquired complicated intra-abdominal infections in children hospitalized during 1995-2004 at a paediatric surgery department

Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 41, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 720-726

  Newman, Nitza ^a   Wattad, Eman ^a   Greenberg, David ^a   Peled, Nehama ^a   Cohen, Zahavi ^a   Leibovitz, Eugene ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; AMPICILLIN; CEFTRIAXONE; GENTAMICIN; IMIPENEM; METRONIDAZOLE; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM;

ABDOMINAL ABSCESS; ABDOMINAL DISTENSION; ABDOMINAL INFECTION; ABDOMINAL PAIN; ABDOMINAL TENDERNESS; ACINETOBACTER; ACUTE APPENDICITIS; ADOLESCENT; ALPHA HEMOLYTIC STREPTOCOCCUS; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; APATHY; APPENDICITIS; APPENDIX PERFORATION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL FLORA; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTEROIDES FRAGILIS; CHILD; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSTIPATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORYNEBACTERIUM; DIARRHEA; DRUG DOSE REGIMEN; DYSURIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; FEVER; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFANT; INFECTION COMPLICATION; INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; IRRITABILITY; KLEBSIELLA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; PEDIATRIC SURGERY; PEDIATRIC WARD; PERCUTANEOUS DRAINAGE; PERITONEUM; PERITONITIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURGICAL PATIENT; SURGICAL WARD; TREATMENT DURATION; VOMITING; WOUND DEHISCENCE;

ABDOMINAL ABSCESS; ADOLESCENT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; APPENDICITIS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; PERITONITIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGERY DEPARTMENT, HOSPITAL;

EID: 72449153939     PISSN: 00365548     EISSN: 16511980     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00365540903159261     Document Type: Article

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