Open AccessLate‐Onset Posttraumatic Skin and Soft‐Tissue Infections Caused by Rapid‐Growing Mycobacteria in Tsunami Survivors
Author(s) -
Pia Appelgren,
Filip Farnebo,
Leif Dotevall,
Marie Studahl,
Bodil Jönsson,
Björn Petrini
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
clinical infectious diseases
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.44
H-Index - 336
eISSN - 1537-6591
pISSN - 1058-4838
DOI - 10.1086/589300
Subject(s) - medicine , soft tissue , dermatology , microbiology and biotechnology , pathology , biology
In the tsunami catastrophe in Thailand in 2004, several thousand Swedish tourists were injured, with contaminated crush trauma of the legs being the main cause of injury among the survivors.
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