Necrotizing fasciitis: Is the bacterial spectrum changing?

Langenbeck's Archives of Surgery

Volumn 398, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 153-159

  Tsitsilonis, Serafim ^a   Druschel, Claudia ^a   Wichlas, Florian ^a   Haas, Norbert P ^a   Schwabe, Philipp ^a   Bail, Hermann Josef ^b   Schaser, Klaus Dieter ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b Nuremberg Southern Hospital   (Germany)

Author keywords

Mortality; Necrotizing fasciitis; Spectrum

Indexed keywords

BLOOD CLOTTING FACTOR; SULTAMICILLIN;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR CLOTTING; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MONOTHERAPY; MORTALITY; NECROTIZING FASCIITIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; STREPTOCOCCUS GROUP A; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; SURVIVOR;

ADULT; AGED; AMPICILLIN; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; CANDIDIASIS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COMORBIDITY; DEBRIDEMENT; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; FASCIITIS, NECROTIZING; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; MALE; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MIDDLE AGED; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; RECURRENCE; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; SULBACTAM; SURVIVAL RATE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84871724577     PISSN: 14352443     EISSN: 14352451     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00423-012-0983-z     Document Type: Article

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