Acknowledgments

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 369-370

  Holzbauer, Stacy M ^a   Kemperman, Melissa M ^b   Lynfield, Ruth ^b  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b MINNESOTA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEFUROXIME; DOXYCYCLINE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; METRONIDAZOLE; TELITHROMYCIN; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BACTERIAL TOXIN;

ADULT; AMNESIA; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTHRALGIA; ASCITES; CASE REPORT; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE INFECTION; COLITIS; CONFUSION; DEATH; DEPRESSION; DIARRHEA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG FATALITY; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HUMAN; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; INSOMNIA; LETTER; LYME DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; BIOSYNTHESIS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; FATALITY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS COLITIS; TIME;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; ENTEROCOLITIS, PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYME DISEASE; MIDDLE AGED; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 77954733883     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/654808     Document Type: Letter

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