Lack of antibiotic efficacy for simple abscesses: Have matters come to a head?

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 55, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 412-414

  Talan, David A ^a  

^a OLIVE VIEW UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COTRIMOXAZOLE; PLACEBO; PSEUDOMONIC ACID; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ABSCESS; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CLINICAL TRIAL; HUMAN; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS INFECTION; METHICILLIN SUSCEPTIBLE STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; THERAPY EFFECT; TREATMENT FAILURE; BACTERIAL SKIN DISEASE; NOTE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND DRAINAGE;

ABSCESS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; DRAINAGE; HUMANS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; SKIN DISEASES, BACTERIAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRIMETHOPRIM-SULFAMETHOXAZOLE COMBINATION;

EID: 77951905694     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: 10976760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2010.02.024     Document Type: Editorial

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