A fatal case of clostridium sordellii septic shock syndrome associated with medical abortion

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 104, Issue 5 PART 2, 2004, Pages 1142-1144

  Wiebe, Ellen ^a   Guilbert, Edith ^a   Jacot, Francis ^a   Shannon, Caitlin ^a   Winikoff, Beverly ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CASE REPORT; CLOSTRIDIUM SORDELLII; DISEASE COURSE; FATALITY; FEMALE; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; RETRACTED ARTICLE; SEPTIC SHOCK; THERAPEUTIC ABORTION;

ABORTION, THERAPEUTIC; ADULT; BACTEREMIA; CLOSTRIDIUM INFECTIONS; CLOSTRIDIUM SORDELLII; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, FIRST; SHOCK, SEPTIC;

EID: 13944272785     PISSN: 00297844     EISSN: 1873233X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.AOG.0000142738.68439.9e     Document Type: Article

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