Laboratory exposures to staphylococcal enterotoxin B

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 10, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 1544-1549

  Rusnak, Janice M ^a   Kortepeter, Mark ^a   Ulrich, Robert ^a   Poli, Mark ^a   Boudreau, Ellen ^a  

^a UNITED STATES ARMY MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; STAPHYLOCOCCUS ENTEROTOXIN B; SUPERANTIGEN;

ADULT; ARMY; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONJUNCTIVITIS; EYE; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; INGESTION; INHALATION; INTOXICATION; LABORATORY PERSONNEL; MALE; NONHUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; REVIEW; SKIN EDEMA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION;

EID: 4444365368     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1009.040250     Document Type: Review

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