Clinical significance of Corynebacterium striatum isolated from human samples

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 634-639

  Martinez Martinez L ^a   Suarez A I ^a   Rodriguez Bano J ^a   Bernard, K ^b   Muniain M A ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO VIRGEN MACARENA   (Spain)

^b LAB CENTRE FOR DISEASE CONTROL   (Canada)

Author keywords

C. striatum; Coryneform bacteria; Nosocomial infections

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CORYNEBACTERIUM; FEMALE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; MALE; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

CORYNEBACTERIACEAE; CORYNEBACTERIUM STRIATUM;

EID: 0031450782     PISSN: 1198743X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-0691.1997.tb00470.x     Document Type: Article

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