Erratum: Streptococcal toxic shock syndrome caused by Streptococcus suis serotype 2 (PLoS Medicine 3,5 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0030151);Streptococcal toxic shock syndrome caused by Streptococcus suis serotype 2

PLoS Medicine

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 668-676

  Tang, Jiaqi ^a   Wang, Changjun ^a   Feng, Youjun ^b,j   Yang, Weizhong ^c   Song, Huaidong ^d,i   Chen, Zhihai ^e   Yu, Hongjie ^c   Pan, Xiuzhen ^a   Zhou, Xiaojun ^f   Wang, Huaru ^a   Wu, Bo ^f   Wang, Haili ^a   Zhao, Huamei ^a   Lin, Ying ^g   Yue, Jianhua ^a   Wu, Zhenqiang ^g   He, Xiaowei ^g   Gao, Feng ^b   Khan, Abdul Hamid ^b,j   Wang, Jian ^h   Zhao, Guo Ping ⁱ   Wang, Yu ^c   Wang, Xiaoning ^g   Chen, Zhu ^d,i   Gao, George F ^b   more..

^a Research Institute for Medicine of Nanjing Command   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY   (China)

^c CHINESE CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (China)

^d SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^f JINLING HOSPITAL   (China)

^g SOUTH CHINA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^h INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

ⁱ CHINESE NATIONAL HUMAN GENOME CENTER AT SHANGHAI   (China)

^j UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BLOOD EXAMINATION; CHINA; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENOTYPE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENINGITIS; MICROSCOPY; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SEROTYPE; STREPTOCOCCUS GROUP A; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; STREPTOCOCCUS SUIS; SWINE; TOXIC SHOCK SYNDROME; ANIMAL; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; GENETICS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PATHOGENICITY; PATHOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEPSIS; SEPTIC SHOCK; SWINE DISEASE; VIROLOGY; VIRULENCE; ZOONOSIS;

ADULT; AGED; ANIMALS; CHINA; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MENINGITIS, BACTERIAL; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; SEPSIS; SHOCK, SEPTIC; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS SUIS; SWINE; SWINE DISEASES; VIRULENCE; ZOONOSES;

EID: 33744471894     PISSN: 15491277     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0030377     Document Type: Erratum

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