Pneumococcal bacteremia in adults over a to-year period at university hospital, leiden

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 1988, Pages 446-450

  Bruyn, George A W ^a   Van Der Meer, Jos W M ^a   Hermans, Jo ^a   Knoppert, Wilma ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MORTALITY; NETHERLANDS; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SEPTICEMIA; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; NETHERLANDS; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEPTICEMIA;

EID: 0023976369     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: 15376591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/clinids/10.2.446     Document Type: Article

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