Infectious complications in OIF/OEF veterans with traumatic brain injury

Journal of Rehabilitation Research and Development

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 673-684

  Dau, Birgitt ^a,b   Oda, Gina ^c   Holodniy, Mark ^a,b,c  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Office of Public Health Surveillance and Research   (United States)

Author keywords

Acinetobacter; Afghanistan; Brain injury; Infection; Infectious disease management; Iraq; Leishmaniasis; MRSA; Sexually transmitted infection; Veteran

Indexed keywords

ACINETOBACTERS; AFGHANISTAN; BRAIN INJURY; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED INFECTIONS;

BRAIN; PROSTHETICS; VIRUSES;

DIAGNOSIS;

AMIKACIN; AMPICILLIN; ANTIMONY; CEFTRIAXONE; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; CIPROFLOXACIN; COLISTIN; FLUCONAZOLE; GENTAMICIN; IMIPENEM; LEVOFLOXACIN; MAFENIDE ACETATE; MEROPENEM; MINOCYCLINE; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; POLYMYXIN B; RIFAMPICIN; SULTAMICILLIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ACINETOBACTER INFECTION; ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ANTIMICROBIAL THERAPY; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CANDIDA; CANDIDIASIS; CASE REPORT; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONDYLOMA ACUMINATUM; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; DEVICE INFECTION; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; ENTEROBACTER AEROGENES; ENTEROBACTER CLOACAE; ENTEROCOCCUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENITAL HERPES; GIARDIA; HEPATITIS C; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION RISK; INFECTIOUS COMPLICATION; IRAQ; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LUNG INFECTION; LUNG INJURY; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS INFECTION; MORBIDITY; NOROVIRUS; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEUS MIRABILIS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTION; PSEUDOMONAS PNEUMONIA; Q FEVER; REVIEW; RHODOTORULA; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SHIGELLA; SKIN LEISHMANIASIS; STENOTROPHOMONAS MALTOPHILIA; STREPTOCOCCUS SALIVARIUS; TRACHEOSTOMY; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; UNITED STATES; VETERAN; VIRUS INFECTION; WAR; WOUND INFECTION;

ACINETOBACTER INFECTIONS; ADULT; AFGHAN CAMPAIGN 2001-; BLAST INJURIES; BRAIN INJURIES; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; IRAQ WAR, 2003 -; MALE; PROSTHESIS-RELATED INFECTIONS; VETERANS; WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 73349123756     PISSN: 07487711     EISSN: 07487711     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1682/JRRD.2008.09.0113     Document Type: Review

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