Predictors of surgical site infections among patients undergoing major surgery at Bugando Medical Centre in Northwestern Tanzania

BMC Surgery

Volumn 11, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Mawalla, Brian ^a   Mshana, Stephen E ^a   Chalya, Phillipo L ^a   Imirzalioglu, Can ^b   Mahalu, William ^a  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH AND ALLIED SCIENCES   (Tanzania)

^b Institute of Medical Microbiology   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS INFECTION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MICROBIOLOGY; PREVALENCE; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; SURGICAL INFECTION; TANZANIA;

ADULT; CROSS INFECTION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; PREVALENCE; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; TANZANIA;

EID: 80052172356     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712482     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2482-11-21     Document Type: Article

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