Bacteremia following placement of intracervical laminaria tents

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 695-697

  Acharya, Pinak S ^a   Gluckman, Stephen J ^a  

^a HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEFTRIAXONE; CLINDAMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; LEVOFLOXACIN; PARACETAMOL; SULTAMICILLIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BLOOD CULTURE; CASE REPORT; CHILL; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMAN; INFECTION RATE; INFECTION RISK; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LAMINARIA; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; UTERINE CERVIX DILATATION; VAGINA FLORA; WETTABILITY;

EID: 0032820618     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/598666     Document Type: Article

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