Risk factors, microbiological findings and outcomes of necrotizing fasciitis in New Zealand: A retrospective chart review

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 12, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Das, Dilip Kumar ^a,b   Baker, Michael G ^a   Venugopal, Kamalesh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b Hutt Valley District Health Board   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Bacterial infection; Ethnicity; Necrotizing fasciitis; New Zealand; Traditional Samoan tattooing

Indexed keywords

ERYTHROMYCIN; FLUCLOXACILLIN; METICILLIN; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; STEROID;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AMPUTATION; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CHILD; COMORBIDITY; DEBRIDEMENT; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFANT; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; KIDNEY FAILURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MICROBIOLOGY; MORTALITY; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; NECROTIZING FASCIITIS; NEW ZEALAND; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; PATIENT INFORMATION; PREVALENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SHOCK; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; TATTOOING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIABETES COMPLICATIONS; FASCIITIS, NECROTIZING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW ZEALAND; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84870892776     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-12-348     Document Type: Article

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