Fatal Clostridium sordellii infections after medical abortions

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 363, Issue 14, 2010, Pages 1382-1383

  Meites, Elissa ^a   Zane, Suzanne ^a   Gould, Carolyn ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOXYCYCLINE; MIFEPRISTONE; MISOPROSTOL; ABORTIVE AGENT;

ABDOMINAL CRAMP; ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADNEXA DISEASE; ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CASE REPORT; CLOSTRIDIUM INFECTION; CLOSTRIDIUM SORDELLII; DIARRHEA; ENDOMETRITIS; FATALITY; FEMALE; GESTATION PERIOD; HEMATOCRIT; HEMOCONCENTRATION; HISPANIC; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOTENSION; HYSTERECTOMY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFLAMMATION; KIDNEY NECROSIS; LAPAROTOMY; LETTER; LEUKOCYTOSIS; MEDICAL ABORTION; NECROTIZING ENDOMETRITIS; PARACENTESIS; PERITONEAL FLUID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; SALPINGOOOPHORECTOMY; SEPSIS; TACHYCARDIA; TOXIC SHOCK SYNDROME; VOMITING; CLOSTRIDIUM INFECTIONS; INDUCED ABORTION; INTRAVAGINAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY DIABETES MELLITUS; SHOCK, SEPTIC; YOUNG ADULT;

ABORTIFACIENT AGENTS; ABORTION, INDUCED; ADMINISTRATION, INTRAVAGINAL; ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; CLOSTRIDIUM INFECTIONS; CLOSTRIDIUM SORDELLII; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIFEPRISTONE; MISOPROSTOL; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY IN DIABETICS; SHOCK, SEPTIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77957327984     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMc1001014     Document Type: Letter

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