Update on Emerging Infections: News from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 43-45

  Barrett, Tyler W ^a   Moran, Gregory J ^a  

^a OLIVE VIEW UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; FENCING; FOOTBALL; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SPORT; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; UNITED STATES; WRESTLING; ANAMNESIS; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; HEMODIALYSIS; INFECTION PREVENTION; LABORATORY TEST; MURINE TYPHUS; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICE; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; RICKETTSIA TYPHI; RICKETTSIOSIS; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEFTRIAXONE; DOXYCYCLINE;

EID: 0346098334     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2003.10.007     Document Type: Review

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