Listeriosis: Recognizing it, treating it, preventing it

Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine

Volumn 66, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 375-380

  Taege, Alan J ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; BACTEREMIA; DRUG EFFECT; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFECTION RISK; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; LISTERIOSIS; MENINGITIS; PREVALENCE; REVIEW;

EID: 0032981389     PISSN: 08911150     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3949/ccjm.66.6.375     Document Type: Review

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