An outbreak of pharyngitis caused by food-borne group A Streptococcus

Japanese Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 127-128

  Matsumoto, Masakado ^a   Miwa, Yoshio ^a   Matsui, Hironori ^a   Saito, Makoto ^a   Ohta, Michio ^b   Miyazaki, Yutaka ^a  

^a AICHI PREFECTURAL INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DIARRHEA; FOOD POISONING; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NAUSEA; PHARYNGITIS; STREPTOCOCCUS GROUP A; VOMITING;

DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DNA, BACTERIAL; EGGS; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; FOOD POISONING; HUMANS; JAPAN; PHARYNGITIS; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES;

EID: 0032844012     PISSN: 13446304     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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