Clinical features and epidemiologic study of an outbreak of listeriosis in Gran Canaria (Spain);Caracteristicas clinicas y estudio epidemiologico de un brote de listeriosis en Gran Canaria

Enfermedades Infecciosas y Microbiologia Clinica

Volumn 14, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 416-421

  Elcuaz, Rosa ^a   Bordes, Ana ^a   Aladro, Yolanda ^a   García, Amoz ^b   Perera, Agustina ^a   Valle, Leonor ^c   Cañas, Fernando ^d   Lafarga, Bernardo ^a  

^a Hospital Nuestra Senora del Pino   (Spain)

^b Dir Territorial de Salud ^*  (Spain)

^c HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO MATERNO INFANTIL DE CANARIAS   (Spain)

^d HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO INSULAR DE GRAN CANARIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

epidemic outbreak; incidence; Listeria monocytogenes

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMOXICILLIN; AMPICILLIN; CEFOTAXIME; CEFTRIAXONE; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CLINDAMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; NETILMICIN; PENICILLIN G; TETRACYCLINE; TOBRAMYCIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; LISTERIOSIS; MORTALITY; MULTICENTER STUDY; NEWBORN; PREGNANCY; SEROTYPING; SPAIN; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CLASSIFICATION; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DRUG EFFECT; EPIDEMIC; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; INCIDENCE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; SEPSIS; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION;

ABORTION, SPONTANEOUS; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; COMORBIDITY; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; INCIDENCE; INFANT, NEWBORN; LISTERIA INFECTIONS; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MALE; MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; MIDDLE AGED; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; SEPSIS; SEROTYPING; SPAIN;

EID: 0029780727     PISSN: 0213005X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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