Yersinia enterocolitica bacteremia associated with red blood cell transfusion

Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 120, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 499-500

  Haverly, Rebecca M ^a   Harrison, Chantal R ^a   Dougherty, Thomas H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^b WILFORD HALL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; HYPERPYREXIA; HYPERTENSION; MALE; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS; PULSE RATE; RIGOR; SEROTYPING; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; YERSINIA ENTEROCOLITICA;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BACTEREMIA; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; HUMANS; MALE; YERSINIA ENTEROCOLITICA; YERSINIA INFECTIONS;

EID: 0029974198     PISSN: 00039985     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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