Editorial: Antisepsis in the time of antibiotics: Following in the footsteps of John Snow and Joseph Lister

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 112, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-3

  Hollmann, Markus W ^a   Roy, Raymond C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ANESTHESIOLOGY; ANESTHESIST; ANTISEPSIS; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EDITORIAL; HAND WASHING; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; MICROBIAL CONTAMINATION; MICROBIOME; OPERATING ROOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; ANESTHESIA; EQUIPMENT; HISTORY; NOTE; SURGICAL INFECTION;

ANESTHESIA; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTISEPSIS; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HUMANS; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 78650926970     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/ANE.0b013e3181fa354e     Document Type: Editorial

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