A decade of reduced gram-negative infections and mortality associated with improved isolation of burned patients.

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Published in Arch Surg on December 01, 1994

Authors

A T McManus1, A D Mason, W F McManus, B A Pruitt

Author Affiliations

1: US Army Institute of Surgical Research, Ft Sam Houston, Tex.

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