Group B streptococcal infections in adults excluding genital infections;Infecciones por estreptococos grupo B en adultos excluyendo infecciones genitales

Revista Argentina de Microbiologia

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 226-229

  Peirotti, M G ^a   Gonzalez, S E ^a   Littvik, A M ^a   Vacaflor, L ^b   Kassar, M A ^b   Moreno, S ^a   Bottiglieri, M T ^b  

^a Hospital Rawson   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CÓRDOBA   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Adult infections; Immunocompromised patients; Streptococcus agalactiae

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIABETES MELLITUS; ENDOCARDITIS; ENDOMETRITIS; FEMALE; GENITAL TRACT INFECTION; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; INFECTION; MALE; MENINGITIS; PERITONITIS; PNEUMONIA; RISK FACTOR; SEPSIS; SKIN INFECTION; SOFT TISSUE INFECTION; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARGENTINA; COMORBIDITY; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSTHESIS-RELATED INFECTIONS; RISK FACTORS; SOFT TISSUE INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS;

EID: 0036970346     PISSN: 03257541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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