Invasive pneumococcal infections a comparison between adults and children

Medicine

Volumn 76, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 295-303

  Rahav, Galia ^a   Toledano, Yoel ^a   Engelhard, Dan ^a   Simhon, Albert ^a   Moses, Allon E ^a   Sacks, Theodore ^a   Shapiro, Mervyn ^a  

^a HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIMICROBIAL THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CHILD; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LACTAMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; PENICILLINS; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; SEROTYPING; SHOCK, SEPTIC; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 0030835469     PISSN: 00257974     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005792-199707000-00007     Document Type: Article

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