Aerobic bacteria in post surgical wound infections and pattern of their antimicrobial susceptibility in Ayder Teaching and Referral Hospital, Mekelle, Ethiopia

BMC Research Notes

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Mengesha, Reiye Esayas ^a   Kasa, Berhe Gebre Slassie ^a   Saravanan, Muthupandian ^a   Berhe, Derbew Fikadu ^a   Wasihun, Araya Gebreyesus ^a  

^a MEKELLE UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

Author keywords

Aerobic bacteria; Antimicrobial susceptibility; Drug resistance; Post surgical wound infection; Surgical ward

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AEROBIC BACTERIUM; AGED; CLASSIFICATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TEST; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; SURGICAL INFECTION; TEACHING HOSPITAL; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIA, AEROBIC; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; MALE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MIDDLE AGED; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84906957954     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17560500     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1756-0500-7-575     Document Type: Article

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