Is a black-pigmented Corynebacterium species an opportunistic pathogen during pregnancy? Literature review and report of 3 new cases

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 834-837

  Shukla, Sanjay K ^a   Harney, Mary ^b   Jhaveri, Bharati ^b   Andrews, Kathy ^b   Reed, Kurt D ^a  

^a MARSHFIELD CLINIC   (United States)

^b ST JOHN'S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; CLINDAMYCIN; DOXYCYCLINE; GENTAMICIN; PENICILLIN G;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CASE REPORT; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CHLAMYDIASIS; CORYNEBACTERIUM; DIPHTHERIA; ENDOMETRITIS; FEMALE; FEMALE GENITAL SYSTEM; GARDNERELLA VAGINALIS; GENETIC TRAIT; GENOTYPE; GRAM STAINING; HUMAN; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MICROCOCCUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRICHOMONAS VAGINALIS; TRICHOMONIASIS; ULTRASOUND;

ADULT; CORYNEBACTERIUM; CORYNEBACTERIUM INFECTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS;

EID: 0141676145     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/377233     Document Type: Article

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