Varicella - A harmless childhood disease?;Varizellen - Eine harmlose kinderkrankheit?

Monatsschrift fur Kinderheilkunde

Volumn 150, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 497-500

  Zucol, F ^a   Kaymak, C ^a   Bittel, M ^a   Bolz, D ^a   Schaad, U B ^a   Heininger, U ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

haemolytic group A streptococci; Complications; Varicella; VZV

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CASE REPORT; CELLULITIS; CHICKENPOX; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; KNEE ARTHRITIS; MALE; NECROTIZING FASCIITIS; STREPTOCOCCUS GROUP A; SWITZERLAND; VARICELLA ZOSTER VIRUS;

EID: 24044442533     PISSN: 00269298     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00112-001-0332-8     Document Type: Article

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