Post-operative central nervous system infections after cranial surgery in China: Incidence, causative agents, and risk factors in 1,470 patients

European Journal of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 861-866

  Zhan, R ^a   Zhu, Y ^a   Shen, Y ^b   Shen, J ^a   Tong, Y ^a   Yu, H ^a   Wen, L ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID DRAINAGE; CHINA; CHINESE; CRANIOTOMY; ELECTIVE SURGERY; EMERGENCY SURGERY; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; FEMALE; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LENGTH OF STAY; LIQUORRHEA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; NEUROSURGEON; NEUROSURGERY; OPERATION DURATION; POSTOPERATIVE CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM INFECTION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS; REOPERATION; RISK FACTOR; SKULL SURGERY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; SURVIVAL; TEACHING HOSPITAL; AGED; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM INFECTIONS; CLASSIFICATION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; INCIDENCE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM INFECTIONS; CHINA; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84900825954     PISSN: 09349723     EISSN: 14354373     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10096-013-2026-2     Document Type: Article

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