Bloody diarrhea caused by Klebsiella pneumoniae: A new mechanism of bacterial virulence?

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 648-649

  Guerin, Francois ^a   Bouguenec, Chantal Le ^a   Gilquin, Jacques ^a   Haddad, Fady ^a   Goldstein, Fred W ^a  

^a SAINT JOSEPH HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEFTRIAXONE;

AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; BLOOD CULTURE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CYTOSKELETON; DIARRHEA; FEMALE; HUMAN; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0031666797     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/517141     Document Type: Article

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