Epidemiology of infections in a Burn Unit, Albania

Burns

Volumn 39, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1456-1467

  Belba, Monika Kristaq ^a   Petrela, Elizana Ylber ^a   Belba, Amy Gjergji ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL CENTER MOTHER TERESA   (Albania)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Burn wound infections

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BACITRACIN; CIPROFLOXACIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; METRONIDAZOLE; NALIDIXIC ACID; OXACILLIN; POLYMYXIN; POVIDONE IODINE; SULFADIAZINE; VANCOMYCIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; AGED; ALBANIA; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ANTIMICROBIAL THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BLOOD CULTURE; BLOODSTREAM INFECTION; BODY SURFACE; BURN; BURN INFECTION; BURN PATIENT; CATHETER INFECTION; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETER; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETERIZATION; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMERGENCY CARE; FEMALE; FEMORAL VEIN; HAND WASHING; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFECTION RATE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTRAVENOUS CATHETER; JUGULAR VEIN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT MONITORING; PNEUMONIA; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; RESUSCITATION; SCHOOL CHILD; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; SUBCLAVIAN VEIN; URINE CULTURE; UROSEPSIS; WOUND INFECTION; AGE DISTRIBUTION; BURN UNIT; CATHETER; CATHETER-RELATED INFECTIONS; COMPLICATION; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LENGTH OF STAY; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; SEPSIS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALBANIA; BURN UNITS; BURNS; CATHETER-RELATED INFECTIONS; CATHETERS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEPSIS; WOUND INFECTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84885425603     PISSN: 03054179     EISSN: 18791409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.burns.2013.03.013     Document Type: Article

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