Infection with unexpected micro-organisms in splenectomised patients [5] (multiple letters)

Lancet

Volumn 360, Issue 9337, 2002, Pages 949-950

  Julianov, Alexander ^a   Palijska, Slavena ^a   Nedkov, Nikolai ^a   Ziske, Carsten G ^b  

^a University Hospital Stara Zagora   (Bulgaria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERYTHROMYCIN; PENICILLIN G; PNEUMOCOCCUS VACCINE;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BETA THALASSEMIA; CASE REPORT; HUMAN; LETTER; MALE; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SEPTIC SHOCK; SPLENECTOMY; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; VACCINATION;

EID: 0037152085     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(02)11053-1     Document Type: Letter

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