Bacteriology of acute appendicitis and its implication for the use of prophylactic antibiotics

Surgical Infections

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 383-390

  Chen, Chin Yau ^a   Chen, Yen Chung ^a   Pu, Hsueh Neng ^a   Tsai, Chien Ho ^a   Chen, Wei Ting ^a   Lin, Chi Hung ^a  

^a NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; CEFEPIME; CEFTAZIDIME;

ACUTE ABDOMEN; ACUTE APPENDICITIS; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; APPENDECTOMY; ARTICLE; BACTERIOLOGY; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; COMAMONAS; ENTEROBACTER; ENTEROCOCCUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; KLEBSIELLA OXYTOCA; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORAXELLA; NONHUMAN; OPERATION DURATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEUS MIRABILIS; PROTEUS VULGARIS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS ALCALIGENES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDICITIS; APPENDIX; BACTERIA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84871634258     PISSN: 10962964     EISSN: 15578674     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/sur.2011.135     Document Type: Article

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