An outbreak of conjunctivitis due to atypical Streptococcus pneumoniae

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 348, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 1112-1121

  Martin, Michael ^a   Turco, John H ^b   Zegans, Michael E ^c   Facklam, Richard R ^a   Sodha, Samir ^e   Elliott, John A ^a   Pryor, John H ^d   Beall, Bernard ^a   Erdman, Dean D ^a   Baumgartner, Yolanda Y ^b   Sanchez, Paul A ^d   Schwartzman, Joseph D ^c   Montero, José ^f   Schuchat, Anne ^a   Whitney, Cynthia G ^a,g  

^a NATL CENTER FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^b Dartmouth College Health Service   (United States)

^c DARTMOUTH HITCHCOCK MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d DARTMOUTH MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f Off of Community and Public Health   (United States)

^g CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ETHYLHYDROCUPREINE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CONJUNCTIVITIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DNA PROBE; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; INTERNET; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RISK FACTOR; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEROTYPING; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIA; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

CONJUNCTIVA; CONJUNCTIVITIS, BACTERIAL; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, HORIZONTAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEW HAMPSHIRE; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; RISK FACTORS; SEROTYPING; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; UNIVERSITIES;

EID: 0037456736     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa022521     Document Type: Article

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