Invasive group A streptococcal infection in high school football players, New York City, 2003

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 146-149

  Manning, Susan E ^a,b,e   Lee, Elsie ^b   Bambino, Maribeth ^c   Ackelsberg, Joel ^b   Weiss, Don ^b   Sathyakumar, Chiminyan ^b   Kornblum, John ^b   Barbot, Oxiris ^b   Johnson, Dwight ^d   Kaplan, Edward L ^d   Layton, Marcelle ^b  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b NY City Dept of Hlth/Mental Hyg   (United States)

^c MONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d WHO Collaborating Ctr Ref Res S   (United States)

^e NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; ERYTHROMYCIN; TETRACYCLINE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BLOOD CULTURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DYSPHAGIA; FOOTBALL; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MALE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; STREPTOCOCCUS GROUP A; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; THROMBOSIS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 19944429902     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1101.040559     Document Type: Article

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