Recent trend of necrotizing fasciitis in taiwan: Focus on monomicrobial Klebsiella pneumoniae necrotizing fasciitis

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 55, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 930-939

  Cheng, Nai Chen ^a   Yu, Yen Chen ^a   Tai, Hao Chih ^a   Hsueh, Po Ren ^b   Chang, Shan Chwen ^b   Lai, Shau Yan ^c   Yi, Wen Ching ^c   Fang, Chi Tai ^b,c  

^a Department of Surgery ^*  (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; AMPICILLIN; CEFAZOLIN; CEFEPIME; CEFOTAXIME; CEFOXITIN; CEFTRIAXONE; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLAVULANIC ACID; FLOMOXEF; GENTAMICIN; IMIPENEM; MEROPENEM; OXACILLIN; POLYSACCHARIDE; SULBACTAM; TICARCILLIN; TOBRAMYCIN;

ABSCESS; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BELOW KNEE AMPUTATION; DEBRIDEMENT; FASCIOTOMY; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; GROUP A STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTION; HUMAN; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT; INCISION; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; NECROTIZING FASCIITIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPLIT THICKNESS SKIN GRAFT; STREPTOCOCCUS GROUP A; SURGICAL DRAINAGE; TAIWAN;

ADULT; AGED; DNA, BACTERIAL; FASCIITIS, NECROTIZING; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; KLEBSIELLA INFECTIONS; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TAIWAN; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

EID: 84866128716     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: 15376591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cid/cis565     Document Type: Article

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