A five-year survey of pneumococcal peritonitis in two Danish counties - Incidence, diagnosis and clinical entities

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 738-740

  Nielsen, Kari R ^a,b   Ejlersten, T ^a   El Batran, S ^c   Prag, J ^c  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b Viborg Kjellerup Hospital ^*  (Denmark)

^c VIBORG HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

IUCD; Meckel's diverticulum; Perforated peptic ulcer; PID; Pneumococcal peritonitis; Postinfectious sterility; Postpartum infection

Indexed keywords

AMINOGLYCOSIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEPHALOSPORIN; PENICILLIN G;

ABDOMINAL SURGERY; ANALYTIC METHOD; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDICITIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL PERITONITIS; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; DENMARK; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; HEALTH SURVEY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTESTINE SURGERY; LABORATORY TEST; LAPAROTOMY; MECKEL DIVERTICULUM; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; PATHOGENESIS; PELVIC INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; POPULATION RESEARCH; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOMACH SURGERY; STOMACH ULCER; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 0041525400     PISSN: 1198743X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1469-0691.2003.00603.x     Document Type: Article

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