Antimicrobial-Resistant Bacteria in Infected Wounds, Ghana, 2014

Antimicrobial-Resistant Bacteria in Infected Wounds, Ghana, 2014

Wound infections are an emerging medical problem worldwide, frequently neglected in under-resourced countries. Bacterial culture and antimicrobial drug resistance testing of infected wounds in patients in a rural hospital in Ghana identified no methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus or carbapen...

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Main Authors: Hauke Janssen, Iryna Janssen, Paul Cooper, Clemens Kainyah, Theresia Pellio, Michael Quintel, Mathieu Monnheimer, Uwe Groß, Marco H. Schulze
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2018-05-01
Series:Emerging Infectious Diseases
Subjects:
wound infections
Ghana
rural
gram-negative bacteria
Enterobacteriaceae
polymicrobial infections
Online Access:https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/24/5/17-1506_article

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