The effect of vacuum-assisted closure in bacterial clearance of the Infected Abdomen

Surgical Infections

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 18-23

  Pliakos, Ioannis ^a   Michalopoulos, Nikolaos ^a   Papavramidis, Theodossis S ^a   Arampatzi, Stergiani ^a   Diza Mataftsi, Eudoxia ^a   Papavramidis, Spiros ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL INFECTION; ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CLEARANCE; BACTERIAL LOAD; BACTERIAL SUPERINFECTION; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTESTINE FLORA; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LAPAROTOMY; LENGTH OF STAY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERITONEAL CAVITY; PERITONITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEUS MIRABILIS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; VACUUM ASSISTED CLOSURE; VACUUM ASSISTED CLOSURE DEVICE; WOUND CARE;

ADULT; AGED; CROSS INFECTION; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INTRAABDOMINAL INFECTIONS; LAPAROTOMY; LENGTH OF STAY; MIDDLE AGED; NEGATIVE-PRESSURE WOUND THERAPY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84893641658     PISSN: 10962964     EISSN: 15578674     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/sur.2012.156     Document Type: Article

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