Iatrogenic meningitis: The case for face masks

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 519-521

  Baer, E T ^a  

^a NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; FATTY ACID; FENTANYL;

ALPHA HEMOLYTIC STREPTOCOCCUS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; COST; FACE MASK; HUMAN; IATROGENIC DISEASE; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; MENINGITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; SURGICAL MASK;

HUMANS; IATROGENIC DISEASE; MASKS; MENINGITIS, BACTERIAL; SPINAL PUNCTURE; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS;

EID: 0034456372     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/313991     Document Type: Short Survey

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