Aerobic and anaerobic microbiology of pyomyositis

Infectious Diseases in Clinical Practice

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 252-256

  Brook, Itzhak ^a,b   Frazier, Edith H ^a  

^a WALTER REED ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AEROBIC BACTERIUM; ANAEROBIC BACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACTEROIDES FRAGILIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLOSTRIDIUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; FUSOBACTERIUM NUCLEATUM; HUMAN; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; PEPTOSTREPTOCOCCUS; PYOMYOSITIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES;

EID: 0033022714     PISSN: 10569103     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00019048-199906000-00006     Document Type: Article

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