Corynebacterium species isolated from patients with mastitis

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 35, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 1434-1440

  Paviour, Sue ^a   Musaad, Sahar ^a   Roberts, Sally ^a   Taylor, Graeme ^a   Taylor, Susan ^b   Shore, Keith ^a   Lang, Selwyn ^b   Holland, David ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b MIDDLEMORE HOSPITAL   (New Zealand)

^c Microbiology Laboratory   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BREAST; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORYNEBACTERIUM; CORYNEBACTERIUM AMYCOLATUM; CORYNEBACTERIUM KROPPENSTEDTII; CORYNEBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSTEARICUM; FEMALE; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MASTITIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUS; WOUND;

ADULT; CORYNEBACTERIUM; CORYNEBACTERIUM INFECTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MASTITIS;

EID: 0036901213     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/344463     Document Type: Article

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