Outbreak of pertussis in a university laboratory

Internal Medicine

Volumn 50, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 879-885

  Miyashita, Naoyuki ^a   Kawai, Yasuhiro ^a   Yamaguchi, Tetsuya ^a   Ouchi, Kazunobu ^a   Kurose, Koji ^a   Oka, Mikio ^a  

^a KAWASAKI MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Adult; Bordetella pertussis; Cough; Macrolide; Outbreak; Serology

Indexed keywords

AZITHROMYCIN; CLARITHROMYCIN; TULOBUTEROL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUGHING; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE DURATION; DRUG EFFICACY; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; LABORATORY TEST; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MALE; PERTUSSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEROLOGY;

ADULT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BORDETELLA PERTUSSIS; CLARITHROMYCIN; COUGH; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; LABORATORY PERSONNEL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; UNIVERSITIES; VIRULENCE FACTORS, BORDETELLA; WHOOPING COUGH; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79955566112     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: 13497235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.50.4768     Document Type: Article

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