Clinical characteristics of group G streptococcal bacteremia

Infectious Diseases in Clinical Practice

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 43-48

  Butt, Adeel A ^a   Janney, Ailleen ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIV MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL ARTHRITIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; ENDOCARDITIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; KIDNEY FAILURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENINGITIS; NEWBORN INFECTION; OTITIS MEDIA; PERITONITIS; PHARYNGITIS; SEPTICEMIA; SOFT TISSUE INFECTION; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION;

EID: 0031887725     PISSN: 10569103     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00019048-199801000-00009     Document Type: Article

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