Multidrug-resistant bacterial colonization of combat-injured personnel at admission to medical centers after evacuation from Afghanistan and Iraq.

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Published in J Trauma on July 01, 2011

Authors

Duane R Hospenthal1, Helen K Crouch, Judith F English, Fluryanne Leach, Jane Pool, Nicholas G Conger, Timothy J Whitman, Glenn W Wortmann, Janelle L Robertson, Clinton K Murray

Author Affiliations

1: Infectious Disease Service, Brooke Army Medical Center, Fort Sam Houston, Texas 78234, USA. duane.hospenthal@amedd.army.mil

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