Streptococcus suis: An emerging human pathogen

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 617-625

  Wertheim, Heiman F L ^a,b   Nghia, Ho Dang Trung ^a   Taylor, Walter ^a,b   Schultsz, Constance ^a,c  

^a OXFORD UNIVERSITY CLINICAL RESEARCH UNIT   (Viet Nam)

^b JOHN RADCLIFFE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEFTRIAXONE; CHLORAMPHENICOL; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DEXAMETHASONE; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; PENICILLIN G; TETRACYCLINE; VANCOMYCIN;

BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; DISEASE DURATION; EPIDEMIC; FEVER; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEADACHE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; MEAT; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DENSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOMMENDED DRUG DOSE; REVIEW; SEPSIS; SKIN MANIFESTATION; SOUTHEAST ASIA; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; STREPTOCOCCUS SUIS; SWINE; TORTICOLLIS; TREATMENT DURATION; VOMITING; ANIMAL; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MENINGITIS; MICROBIOLOGY; SWINE DISEASE; ZOONOSIS;

ANIMALS; ASIA, SOUTHEASTERN; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HEARING LOSS; HUMANS; MENINGITIS; SEPSIS; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS SUIS; SWINE; SWINE DISEASES; ZOONOSES;

EID: 60549110572     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/596763     Document Type: Review

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