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GRAM–NEGATIVE BACTEREMIA IN COLONIC AND RECTAL SURGERY
Author(s) -
Burton E. C.
Publication year - 1972
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1972.tb46838.x
Subject(s) - bacteremia , medicine , etiology , rectum , colorectal surgery , surgery , gastroenterology , abdominal surgery , antibiotics , microbiology and biotechnology , biology
Gram‐negative portal and systemic bacteremia is common in patients submitted to operations on the colon and rectum. While contamination of the operative field with enteric pathogens during such surgery plays the major role in the causation of postoperative wound infections, Gram‐negative bacteræmia is also a factor in their aetiology.