Pasteurella multocida Peritonitis: Another Risk of Animal-Assisted Therapy

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 5-6

  Sillery, John ^a   Hargreaves, James ^b   Marin, Philip ^b   Lerma, Edgar ^b   Kuznia, Cathy ^b   Abbe, Claudette ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^b ALTRU HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; CEFAZOLIN; CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; GENTAMICIN;

ADULT; BACTERIAL PERITONITIS; CASE REPORT; CAT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LETTER; PASTEURELLA MULTOCIDA; RISK; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANIMALS; BONDING, HUMAN-PET; CATS; DISEASE VECTORS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PASTEURELLA INFECTIONS; PASTEURELLA MULTOCIDA; PERITONEAL DIALYSIS, CONTINUOUS AMBULATORY; PERITONITIS;

EID: 0942298701     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/503486     Document Type: Letter

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