Streptococcus suis infection and risk factors for mortality

Journal of Infection

Volumn 57, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 392-396

  Wangsomboonsiri, Wittaya ^a,b   Luksananun, Teerasak ^a   Saksornchai, Shaloem ^a   Ketwong, Kwanjai ^a   Sungkanuparph, Somnuek ^b  

^a Sawanpracharak Hospital   (Thailand)

^b MAHIDOL UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

Meningitis; Mortality; Risk factor; Streptococcus suis; Thailand

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; CEFTRIAXONE; PENICILLIN G;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ARTHRITIS; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COOKING; DISKITIS; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR CLOTTING; ENDOCARDITIS; ENDOPHTHALMITIS; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENINGITIS; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MORTALITY; PERITONITIS; PORK; RISK FACTOR; SEPSIS; SEPTIC SHOCK; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; STREPTOCOCCUS SUIS; SUBDURAL EMPYEMA; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; THAILAND; ZOONOSIS;

ALANINE TRANSAMINASE; ANIMALS; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HEARING LOSS; HUMANS; MALE; MEAT; MENINGITIS, BACTERIAL; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SHOCK, SEPTIC; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS SUIS; SWINE; THAILAND; ZOONOSES;

EID: 55949086531     PISSN: 01634453     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jinf.2008.08.006     Document Type: Article

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