Clinical presentation and diagnosis of gastrointestinal infections by Yersinia enterocolitica in 261 Dutch patients

Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 571-575

  Stolk Engelaar, Virginia M M ^a   Hoogkamp Korstanje, Jacomina A A ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTIGEN DETECTION; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLITIS; DISEASE COURSE; ENTERITIS; ERYTHEMA NODOSUM; GASTROINTESTINAL INFECTION; HUMAN; ILEITIS; INFANT; LIVER DYSFUNCTION; LYMPHADENITIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NETHERLANDS; NEWBORN; PERITONITIS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; REACTIVE ARTHRITIS; SCHOOL CHILD; SEPTICEMIA; YERSINIA ENTEROCOLITICA; YERSINIOSIS;

EID: 0030498731     PISSN: 00365548     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/00365549609037963     Document Type: Article

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