Toxic-Shock Syndrome: Epidemiologic Features, Recurrence, Risk Factors, and Prevention

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 303, Issue 25, 1980, Pages 1429-1435

  Davis, Jeffrey P ^a,b   Chesney, P Joan ^a   Wand, Philip J ^a   Laventure, Martin ^a  

^a WISCONSIN STATE LABORATORY OF HYGIENE   (United States)

^b WISCONSIN DIVISION OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTRACEPTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MENSTRUAL HYGIENE PRODUCT; MENSTRUATION; MIDDLE AGED; RECURRENT DISEASE; RISK; SEPTIC SHOCK; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; SYNDROME; UNITED STATES; VIRUS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CHILD; CONTRACEPTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MENSTRUAL HYGIENE PRODUCTS; MENSTRUATION; MIDDLE AGED; RECURRENCE; RISK; SHOCK, SEPTIC; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; SYNDROME; VIRUSES; WISCONSIN;

EID: 0019328405     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM198012183032501     Document Type: Article

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