Percutaneously drained intra-abdominal infections do not require longer duration of antimicrobial therapy.

Rishi Rattan; Casey J Allen; Robert G Sawyer; Reza Askari; Kaysie L Banton; Raul Coimbra; Charles H Cook; Therese M Duane; Patrick J OʼNeill; Ori D Rotstein; Nicholas Namias

doi:10.1097/TA.0000000000001019

Percutaneously drained intra-abdominal infections do not require longer duration of antimicrobial therapy.

Rishi Rattan
, Casey J Allen
, Robert G Sawyer
, Reza Askari
, Kaysie L Banton
, Raul Coimbra
, Charles H Cook
, Therese M Duane
, Patrick J OʼNeill
, Ori D Rotstein
, Nicholas Namias

University of Miami
University of Virginia
Brigham and Women's Hospital
University of Minnesota
University of California, San Diego
Department of Surgery (C.H.C.), Beth Israel Deaconnness Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts
Virginia Commonwealth University
Department of Surgery (P.J.O.), Maricopa Integrated Health System, Phoenix, Arizona
St. Michael's Hospital
University of Toronto

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Original language	American English
Journal	Journal of Trauma-injury Infection and Critical Care
Volume	81
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1097/TA.0000000000001019
State	Published - Jan 1 2016
Externally published	Yes

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Medicine and Health Sciences
Surgery

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Rattan, R., Allen, C. J., Sawyer, R. G., Askari, R., Banton, K. L., Coimbra, R., Cook, C. H., Duane, T. M., OʼNeill, P. J., Rotstein, O. D., & Namias, N. (2016). Percutaneously drained intra-abdominal infections do not require longer duration of antimicrobial therapy. Journal of Trauma-injury Infection and Critical Care, 81(1). https://doi.org/10.1097/TA.0000000000001019

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