Factors associated with the acquisition and severity of gestational listeriosis

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 9, 2010, Pages

  Suyemoto, M Mitsu ^a   Spears, Patricia A ^a   Hamrick, Terri S ^b   Barnes, Jill A ^a   Havell, Edward A ^a   Orndorff, Paul E ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CAMPBELL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERYTHROMYCIN; LINCOMYCIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; INOCULATION; LISTERIOSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY; PREVALENCE; ANIMAL; DISEASE MODEL; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LISTERIA; LIVER; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; SPLEEN;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; MUS;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LISTERIA; LISTERIOSIS; LIVER; MICE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPLEEN;

EID: 77958585605     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0012999     Document Type: Article

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