Severe puerperal group A streptococcal infection causing toxic shock- like syndrome;Puerperalsepsis durch Streptokokken der Gruppe A mit schwerer Verlaufsform als 'Toxic Shock-like Syndrome'

Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift

Volumn 123, Issue 19, 1998, Pages 588-593

  Susset, M A ^a,b   Sczepanski, B ^a,b   Herrmann, M ^a,b   Hust, M H ^a,b   Braun, B ^a,b   Heizmann, W R ^a,c  

^a Medizinische Klinik   (Germany)

^b Medizinische Klinik   (Germany)

^c Labor Wagner und Partner   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ANTITHROMBIN III; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CLINDAMYCIN; CREATINE KINASE; CREATININE; FIBRIN DEGRADATION PRODUCT; IMIPENEM; PENICILLIN G; TOBRAMYCIN; UREA; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARM AMPUTATION; ARTERY OCCLUSION; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CASE REPORT; DIARRHEA; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR CLOTTING; EDEMA; ERYTHRODERMA; FEMALE; HOME DELIVERY; HUMAN; MYALGIA; PUERPERAL INFECTION; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; SORE THROAT; STREPTOCOCCUS GROUP A; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TOXIC SHOCK SYNDROME; AMPUTATION; ARM; BACTEREMIA; BRACHIAL ARTERY; EMBOLISM; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; NECROSIS; PATHOGENICITY; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERIPHERAL NERVE; QUADRIPLEGIA; SEPTIC SHOCK; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; THROMBOCYTE TRANSFUSION; VAGINA;

ADULT; AMPUTATION; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTITHROMBIN III; ARM; BACTEREMIA; BRACHIAL ARTERY; EMBOLISM; FEMALE; HUMANS; NECROSIS; PENICILLIN G; PENICILLINS; PERIPHERAL NERVES; PLATELET TRANSFUSION; PUERPERAL INFECTION; QUADRIPLEGIA; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; RESPIRATORY INSUFFICIENCY; SHOCK, SEPTIC; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; TOBRAMYCIN; VAGINA;

EID: 0032495896     PISSN: 00120472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2007-1024024     Document Type: Article

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