Corynebacterium ulcerans diphtheria in Japan [3]

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 752-753

  Hatanaka, Akio ^a   Tsunoda, Atsunobu ^a   Okamoto, Makoto ^a   Ooe, Kenji ^a   Nakamura, Akira ^a   Miyakoshi, Masashi ^a   Komiya, Takako ^b   Takahashi, Motohide ^b  

^a ASAHI GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; DIPHTHERIA TOXIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; SULTAMICILLIN;

ADULT; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CORYNEBACTERIUM DIPHTHERIAE; CORYNEBACTERIUM ULCERANS; DIPHTHERIA; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; FEVER; HOARSENESS; HUMAN; JAPAN; LETTER; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TOXIN SYNTHESIS; ZOONOSIS;

EID: 0038387427     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid0906.020645     Document Type: Letter

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