Mortality following Campylobacter infection: A registry-based linkage study

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 5, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Ternhag, Anders ^a,b   Törner, Anna ^a   Svensson, Åke ^a,c   Giesecke, Johan ^a,b   Ekdahl, Karl ^a,b  

^a SWEDISH INSTITUTE FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASE CONTROL   (Sweden)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CAMPYLOBACTER; CHILD; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; INFANT; INFECTION RISK; LINKAGE ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY; ONSET AGE; POPULATION RESEARCH; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REGISTER; STANDARDIZATION; TRAVEL; AGE; CAMPYLOBACTERIOSIS; INFECTION CONTROL; MEDICAL RECORD; MIDDLE AGED; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RISK FACTOR; SWEDEN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; CAMPYLOBACTER INFECTIONS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DISEASE NOTIFICATION; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MEDICAL RECORD LINKAGE; MIDDLE AGED; REGISTRIES; RISK FACTORS; SWEDEN; TRAVEL;

EID: 27244440435     PISSN: 14712334     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-5-70     Document Type: Article

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