Acute deaths in nonpregnant adults due to invasive streptococcal infections

American Journal of Forensic Medicine and Pathology

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 63-68

  Batalis, Nick I ^a,b   Caplan, Michael J ^a   Schandl, Cynthia A ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Adult; Death; Forensic pathology; Infection; Invasive; Streptococcus

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BACTERIAL FLORA; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BRAIN TISSUE; CASE REPORT; CAUSE OF DEATH; FORENSIC PATHOLOGY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; PNEUMONIA; SHOULDER PAIN; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS GROUP A; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; TISSUE CULTURE; BACTEREMIA; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NECROTIZING FASCIITIS; OSTEOMYELITIS; PATHOGENICITY; SEPSIS; SOFT TISSUE INFECTION; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; SUDDEN DEATH;

ADULT; AGED; BACTEREMIA; DEATH, SUDDEN; FASCIITIS, NECROTIZING; FORENSIC PATHOLOGY; HUMANS; MALE; MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOMYELITIS; PNEUMONIA; SEPSIS; SOFT TISSUE INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES;

EID: 34147103869     PISSN: 01957910     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.paf.0000248775.34108.da     Document Type: Article

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