Prospective multicentre hospital surveillance of Streptococcus pneumoniae disease in India

Lancet

Volumn 353, Issue 9160, 1999, Pages 1216-1221

  Thomas, Kurien ^a  

^a CHRISTIAN MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CHLORAMPHENICOL; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ERYTHROMYCIN; PENICILLIN G; POLYSACCHARIDE VACCINE; STREPTOCOCCUS ANTIGEN; STREPTOCOCCUS VACCINE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTHRITIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BLOOD CULTURE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID CULTURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDIA; INFANT; INFECTION CONTROL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; MULTICENTER STUDY; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; PERICARDITIS; PERITONITIS; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPTICEMIA; SEROTYPE; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 0033541490     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(98)07228-6     Document Type: Article

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