Notes from the field: Respiratory diphtheria-like illness caused by toxigenic corynebacterium ulcerans --- Idaho, 2010

Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 77-

  Blue, S R ^a   Hahn, C ^b   Cassiday, P ^c   Tiwari, T ^c   Carter, K ^d   Colborn, J M ^e  

^a Sawtooth Epidemiology and Infectious Diseases   (United States)

^b Idaho Department of Health and Welfare   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR IMMUNIZATION AND RESPIRATORY DISEASES   (United States)

^d Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; AZITHROMYCIN; DIPHTHERIA ANTIBODY; IMMUNOLOGIC FACTOR;

AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CORYNEBACTERIUM; DIPHTHERIA; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; UNITED STATES;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; AZITHROMYCIN; CORYNEBACTERIUM; DIPHTHERIA; DIPHTHERIA ANTITOXIN; HUMANS; IDAHO; IMMUNOLOGIC FACTORS; MALE;

EID: 79251608552     PISSN: 01492195     EISSN: 1545861X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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