Outbreak of rare serotype of group A streptococcus pharyngitis in a boarding college

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Volumn 353, Issue 9164, 1999, Pages 1585-1586

  Tsakris, Athanassios ^a   Pournaras, Spyros ^b   Hathi, Daksha ^b   Douboyas, John ^b   Efstratiou, Androulla ^b  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b CENTRAL PUBLIC HEALTH LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COLLEGE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FOOD CONTAMINATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PHARYNGITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SORE THROAT; STREPTOCOCCUS GROUP A;

EID: 0033535802     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(99)99028-1     Document Type: Article

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