Nosocomial transmission of invasive group a streptococcus from patient to health care worker

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 354-357

  Lacy, Mark D ^a   Horn, Kim ^a  

^a Flagstaff Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZITHROMYCIN; AZTREONAM; CEFTRIAXONE; CLINDAMYCIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; MACROLIDE; PENICILLIN G; VANCOMYCIN;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLONAL VARIATION; DEBRIDEMENT; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; MALE; MUSCLE NECROSIS; NECROTIZING FASCIITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY THERAPIST; STREPTOCOCCUS GROUP A; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIA; TOXIC SHOCK SYNDROME;

ADULT; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CARRIER PROTEINS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CROSS INFECTION; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; EPIDEMIOLOGY, MOLECULAR; FASCIITIS, NECROTIZING; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, PATIENT-TO-PROFESSIONAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL; SHOCK, SEPTIC; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES;

EID: 67651121515     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/599832     Document Type: Article

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