Fatal pneumococcal septic shock in a patient with ulcerative colitis

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 860-861

  Van Der Hoeven, Johannes G ^a   De Koning, Jan ^a   Masclee, A M ^a   Meinders, Arend E ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR CLOTTING; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPTIC SHOCK; SPLENECTOMY; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; ULCERATIVE COLITIS;

EID: 0030038566     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/clinids/22.5.860     Document Type: Article

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