Spread of serious disease-producing M3 clones of group A streptococcus among family members and health care workers

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 490-495

  DiPersio, Joseph R ^a   File Jr , Thomas M ^b   Stevens, Dennis L ^b   Gardner, William G ^b   Petropoulos, George ^b   Dinsa, Kawaljit ^b  

^a SUMMA HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEFTRIAXONE; HYDROCODONE BITARTRATE; HYDROCODONE BITARTRATE PLUS PARACETAMOL; PARACETAMOL; PENICILLIN G; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; MALE; MYOSITIS; NECROTIZING FASCIITIS; PHARYNGITIS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATIC FEVER; SEROTYPING; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; TOXIC SHOCK SYNDROME;

EID: 0029669535     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/clinids/22.3.490     Document Type: Article

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