Severe Streptococcus agalactiae infection of the diabetic foot: A deleterious role of Streptococcus agalactiae?;Infections sévères à Streptococcus agalactiae du pied diabétique: Rôle délétère du Streptococcus agalactiae?

Presse Medicale

Volumn 34, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 491-494

  Loan, Catherine Altrichter ^a   Legout, Laurence ^a,c   Assal, Mathieu ^a   Rohner, Peter ^a   Hoffmeyer, Pierre ^a   Bernard, Louis ^a,b  

^a GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^b RAYMOND POINCARÉ HOSPITAL   (France)

^c Hôpital Cantonal   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTERY DISEASE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BLOOD CULTURE; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEBRIDEMENT; DIABETIC FOOT; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; LEG AMPUTATION; MALE; NEWBORN INFECTION; OSTEOMYELITIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEPTIC SHOCK; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; SWITZERLAND; VASCULARIZATION; WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 17444402790     PISSN: 07554982     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0755-4982(05)83956-9     Document Type: Article

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