Invasive group B streptococcal infections in a tertiary care hospital between 1998 and 2007 in Japan

International Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 679-684

  Matsubara, Kousaku ^a   Yamamoto, Go ^a  

^a NISHI KOBE MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

Antimicrobial susceptibility; Epidemiology; Group B Streptococcus; Invasive infection; Japan; Serotype

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; CEFOTAXIME; CEFOTIAM; CLINDAMYCIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; LEVOFLOXACIN; PENICILLIN G; VANCOMYCIN;

ABDOMINAL ABSCESS; ABSCESS; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; BACTERIAL PERITONITIS; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BRAIN ABSCESS; CELLULITIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECUBITUS; DIABETES CONTROL; DIABETES MELLITUS; FATALITY; FEMALE; FOOT AMPUTATION; GROUP B STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTION; GROUP B STREPTOCOCCAL MENINGITIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFANT; INFECTION RATE; KIDNEY FAILURE; KNEE AMPUTATION; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; NECROTIZING FASCIITIS; NEOPLASM; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; OVARY ABSCESS; PERICARDITIS; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; STRAIN IDENTIFICATION; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; UROSEPSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTEREMIA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; JAPAN; MALE; MENINGITIS, BACTERIAL; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MIDDLE AGED; PREGNANCY; SEROTYPING; SKIN DISEASES, BACTERIAL; SOFT TISSUE INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70350572306     PISSN: 12019712     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijid.2008.10.007     Document Type: Article

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