Actinomycosis

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1255-1261

  Smego Jr , Raymond A ^a   Foglia, Ginamarie ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CLINDAMYCIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; IMIPENEM; PENICILLIN G; PENICILLIN V; STREPTOMYCIN; TETRACYCLINE;

ABDOMINAL INFECTION; ACTINOMYCES ISRAELII; ACTINOMYCES NAESLUNDII; ACTINOMYCES VISCOSUS; ACTINOMYCOSIS; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM INFECTION; CLINICAL FEATURE; HEAD AND NECK INFECTION; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LUNG INFECTION; MEDIASTINITIS; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PERSONAL HYGIENE; PLEURISY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; UROGENITAL TRACT INFECTION;

EID: 0003603323     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/516337     Document Type: Review

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