Rapidly fatal pneumococcal sepsis in a healthy adult

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 375-376

  Murph, Rhona C ^b   Matulis, W Susie ^b   Hernandez, Jaime E ^a,b  

^a WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE COURSE; FATALITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPSIS; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 0030038375     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/clinids/22.2.375     Document Type: Article

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