Bordetella holmesii-like organisms isolated from Massachusetts patients with pertussis-like symptoms

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 441-443

  Yih, W Katherine ^a,b   Silva, Ellen A ^a   Ida, James ^a   Harrington, Nancy ^a   Lett, Susan M ^a   George, Harvey ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b State Laboratory Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BORDETELLA; BORDETELLA HOLMESII; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COUGHING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; SEPTICEMIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0033056074     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid0503.990317     Document Type: Article

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