A community outbreak of conjunctivitis caused by nontypeable Streptococcus pneumoniae in Minnesota

Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal

Volumn 25, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 906-911

  Buck, Jessica M ^a   Lexau, Catherine ^a   Shapiro, Miriam ^a   Glennen, Anita ^a   Boxrud, David J ^a   Koziol, Bonnie ^a   Whitney, Cynthia G ^b   Beall, Bernard ^b   Danila, Richard ^a   Lynfield, Ruth ^a  

^a MINNESOTA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Conjunctivitis; Disease outbreak; Streptococcus pneumoniae

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONJUNCTIVITIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDEMIC; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FEMALE; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SEROTYPING; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CHILD; CHILD DAY CARE CENTERS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; CONJUNCTIVITIS, BACTERIAL; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; EPIDEMIOLOGY, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; INFANT; MIDDLE AGED; MINNESOTA; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; SCHOOLS; SEROTYPING; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 33749433593     PISSN: 08913668     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.inf.0000238143.96607.ec     Document Type: Article

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