Imported cutaneous diphtheria, Germany, 1997-2003 [4]

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 343-344

  Sing, Andreas ^a   Heesernann, Jürgen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CHRONIC OSTEOMYELITIS; CORYNEBACTERIUM DIPHTHERIAE; DIPHTHERIA; ENDEMIC DISEASE; GERMANY; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; IMMUNIZATION; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; LETTER; MIXED INFECTION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SKIN INFECTION; TOXICITY; TRAVEL; UNITED KINGDOM; WOUND INFECTION;

ADULT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CORYNEBACTERIUM DIPHTHERIAE; DIPHTHERIA; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; SKIN DISEASES, BACTERIAL; TRAVEL;

EID: 13744249894     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Letter

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