Necrotizing soft tissue infections developing from pressure ulcers

Journal of Tissue Viability

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 1-6

  Mizokami, Fumihiro ^a   Furuta, Katsunori ^a   Isogai, Zenzo ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR GERIATRICS AND GERONTOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bacteremia; Necrotizing fasciitis; Pressure ulcer; Soft tissue infection

Indexed keywords

CARBAPENEM; CEPHEM; CLINDAMYCIN;

AGED; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ANTIMICROBIAL THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIOLOGY; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BACTEROIDES FRAGILIS; CITROBACTER FREUNDII; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLOSTRIDIUM; COMORBIDITY; CORYNEBACTERIUM; DEBRIDEMENT; DECUBITUS; DEMENTIA; DIABETES MELLITUS; ENTEROBACTER CLOACAE; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; FUSOBACTERIUM; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; GRAM POSITIVE INFECTION; GRANULATION TISSUE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LABORATORY RISK INDICATOR FOR NECROTIZING FASCIITIS SCORE; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MIXED INFECTION; NECROTIZING FASCIITIS; PORPHYROMONAS ASACCHAROLYTICA; PREVOTELLA BIVIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPIONIBACTERIUM ACNES; PROTEUS VULGARIS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCORING SYSTEM; SOFT TISSUE INFECTION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERY ELDERLY; COMPLICATION; NECROSIS; PATHOLOGY; SOFT TISSUE INFECTIONS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NECROSIS; PRESSURE ULCER; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SOFT TISSUE INFECTIONS;

EID: 84893718831     PISSN: 0965206X     EISSN: 18764746     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtv.2013.11.001     Document Type: Article

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