Streptococcus suis infection in Hong Kong: An emerging infectious disease?

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 136, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1691-1697

  Ma, E ^a   Chung, P H ^a   So, T ^a   Wong, L ^a   Choi, K M ^b   Cheung, D T ^a   Kam, K M ^a   Chuang, S K ^a   Tsang, T ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (Hong Kong)

^b HOSPITAL AUTHORITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; CEFTRIAXONE; CLINDAMYCIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; MACROLIDE; PENICILLIN G; TETRACYCLINE; VANCOMYCIN;

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BLOOD CULTURE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID CULTURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FATALITY; FEMALE; HEART VALVE REPLACEMENT; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HONG KONG; HUMAN; INFECTION RATE; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY; PORK; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; RAW MEAT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEPTICEMIA; SEROTYPE; SEROTYPING; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; STREPTOCOCCUS SUIS; SWINE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; FEMALE; HONG KONG; HUMANS; MALE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEROTYPING; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS SUIS; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 56349090981     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: 14694409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268808000332     Document Type: Article

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