Late-onset neonatal infections caused by group B Streptococcus associated with viral infection

Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal

Volumn 26, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 963-965

  Raymond, Josette ^a   Armengaud, Jean Baptiste ^a   Lambe, Cécile ^a   Tchetchoua, Adelaïde ^a   Moulin, Florence ^a   Lebon, Pierre ^a   Poyart, Claire ^a   Gendrel, Dominique ^a  

^a Institut Cochin   (France)

Author keywords

Group B Streptococcus; Late onset neonatal disease; Viral infection

Indexed keywords

ALPHA INTERFERON;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BLOOD CULTURE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FEVER; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; INFANCY; MALE; MENINGITIS; NEWBORN INFECTION; PHARYNGITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RASH; SEPTICEMIA; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; VIRUS CULTURE; VIRUS INFECTION;

FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MENINGITIS; SEPSIS; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; VIRUS DISEASES;

EID: 34848862482     PISSN: 08913668     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/INF.0b013e3181255ed9     Document Type: Article

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