A cluster of puerperal fever in Gouda; a renewed lesson of Semmelweis;Een cluster van patienten met kraamvrouwenkoorts in Gouda; een hernieuwde les van Semmelweis

Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Geneeskunde

Volumn 143, Issue 33, 1999, Pages 1700-1705

  Thewessen, E A P M ^a   Bontekoe Hoornstra, J ^a   Smelting Nagtzaam, A E ^a   Bilkert Mooiman, M A J ^a   Admiraal, J F ^a  

^a Stichting Lab Van de Goudse Z   (Netherlands)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DISINFECTION; ENDOMETRITIS; FEMALE; FEVER; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; PUERPERAL DISORDER; SEROTYPING; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; ADULT; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; HOSPITAL; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; NETHERLANDS; PREGNANCY; PUERPERAL INFECTION; STATISTICS; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION;

ADULT; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, PROFESSIONAL-TO-PATIENT; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; MALE; NETHERLANDS; PREGNANCY; PUERPERAL INFECTION; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES;

EID: 0033554114     PISSN: 00282162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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