Toxic shock syndrome

Primary Care Update for Ob/Gyns

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 85-90

  Reiss, Martina Afshar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BACTERIAL TOXIN; BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; CEPHALOSPORIN; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLINDAMYCIN; CYTOKINE; ERYTHROMYCIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; NAFCILLIN; PENICILLIN G; VANCOMYCIN;

ARTICLE; DIARRHEA; HUMAN; MENSTRUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RASH; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; TOXIC SHOCK SYNDROME; VOMITING;

EID: 0034612048     PISSN: 1068607X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1068-607X(00)00027-5     Document Type: Article

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