Soft tissue infections caused by marine bacterial pathogens: Epidemiology, diagnosis, and management

Current Infectious Disease Reports

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 470-477

  Finkelstein, Renato ^a,b   Oren, Ilana ^a,b  

^a Infectious Diseases Unit   (Israel)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Aeromonas; Diagnosis; Epidemiology; Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae; Marine pathogens; Mycobacterium marinum; Shewanella; Soft tissue infections; Streptococcus iniae; Treatment; Vibrio

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMINOGLYCOSIDE; AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CARBAPENEM; CEFOTAXIME; CEFTAZIDIME; CEPHALOSPORIN; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLARITHROMYCIN; CLOXACILLIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DOXYCYCLINE; ERYTHROMYCIN; ETHAMBUTOL; IMIPENEM; ISONIAZID; LINEZOLID; MINOCYCLINE; MOXIFLOXACIN; PENICILLIN G; PYRAZINAMIDE; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; RIFABUTIN; RIFAMPICIN;

AEROMONAS; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CELLULITIS; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DEBRIDEMENT; DRUG EFFECT; ERYSIPELOTHRIX INFECTION; ERYSIPELOTHRIX RHUSIOPATHIAE; FASCIOTOMY; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; HUMAN; MARINE BACTERIUM; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MYCOBACTERIUM MARINUM; NECROTIZING FASCIITIS; NONHUMAN; SHEWANELLA; SKIN INFECTION; SOFT TISSUE INFECTION; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; STREPTOCOCCUS INIAE; TREATMENT PLANNING; VIBRIO; VIBRIO VULNIFICUS INFECTION; WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 80052564635     PISSN: 15233847     EISSN: 15343146     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11908-011-0199-3     Document Type: Article

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