Chorioamnionitis caused by Serratia marcescens in a non-immunocompromised host

Journal of Clinical Pathology

Volumn 56, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 871-872

  Shimizu, S ^a   Kojima, H ^a   Yoshida, C ^a   Suzukawa, K ^a   Mukai, H Y ^a   Hasegawa, Y ^a   Hitomi, S ^a   Nagasawa, T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEFTAZIDIME; CILASTATIN PLUS IMIPENEM;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; AMNION FLUID; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ANTITHROMBIN III DEFICIENCY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CASE REPORT; CHORIOAMNIONITIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; INTRAVENOUS PYELOGRAPHY; PERSISTENT INFECTION; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RECURRENT INFECTION; SEPTICEMIA; SERRATIA MARCESCENS; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; VAGINA DISCHARGE;

ABORTION, SPONTANEOUS; ADULT; CHORIOAMNIONITIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; SERRATIA INFECTIONS; SERRATIA MARCESCENS; URETER;

EID: 0242408174     PISSN: 00219746     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jcp.56.11.871     Document Type: Article

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