Diagnosing Capnocytophaga canimorsus infections

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 340-342

  Janda, J Michael ^a   Graves, Margot H ^a   Lindquist, David ^a   Probert, Will S ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CAPNOCYTOPHAGA; CHILD; CONFUSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR CLOTTING; FEMALE; FEVER; FLAVOBACTERIACEAE INFECTION; GENE SEQUENCE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; INFANT; MALAISE; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MENINGITIS; MYALGIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PYREXIA IDIOPATHICA; SEPTIC SHOCK; SEPTICEMIA; VOMITING;

EID: 33644548668     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1202.050783     Document Type: Article

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