Survey of mycoplasmal bacteremia detected in children by polymerase chain reaction

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 522-525

  Narita, Mitsuo ^a   Matsuzono, Yoshihiro ^b   Itakura, Osamu ^b   Togashi, Takehiro ^b   Kikuta, Hideaki ^b  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ENCEPHALITIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MYCOPLASMA; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIA; PNEUMONIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD;

EID: 0029811771     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/clinids/23.3.522     Document Type: Article

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