Role of laboratories in population-based surveillance of invasive diseases in Lazio, Italy, 1998-2000

European Journal of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases

Volumn 21, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 824-826

  Faustini, A ^a   Fabrizi, E ^a   Sangalli, M ^a   Bordi, E ^b   Cipriani, P ^c   Fiscarelli, E ^d   Perucci, C A ^a  

^a Agency for Public Health   (Italy)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASES L SPALLANZANI   (Italy)

^c SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^d Reg Ref Lab for H influenzae   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; CEFTRIAXONE; CHLORAMPHENICOL; ERYTHROMYCIN; PENICILLIN G; RIFAMPICIN;

AGE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFECTION RATE; ITALY; LABORATORY TEST; MENINGOCOCCOSIS; MICROSCOPY; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROTYPING; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CLINICAL LABORATORY TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; HAEMOPHILUS INFECTIONS; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; ITALY; MALE; MENINGOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; MIDDLE AGED; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; RISK FACTORS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEX DISTRIBUTION; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 0036451336     PISSN: 09349723     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10096-002-0830-1     Document Type: Article

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