Similar recovery rates of fusobacterium necrophorum from recurrently infected and non-infected tonsils

Danish Medical Bulletin

Volumn 58, Issue 7, 2011, Pages

  Klug, Tejs Ehlers ^a,b,c   Henriksen, Jens Jacob ^a,b,c   Fuursted, Kurt ^a   Ovesen, Therese ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b AALBORG UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^c HOLSTEBRO HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AEROBIC BACTERIUM; ANAEROBIC BACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CHILD; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONVALESCENCE; FEMALE; FUSOBACTERIUM NECROPHORUM; HALITOSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LEMIERRE SYNDROME; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERITONSILLAR ABSCESS; PERSISTENT SORE THROAT SYNDROME; RECURRENT DISEASE; TONSIL DISEASE; TONSILLAR HYPERTROPHY; TONSILLECTOMY; TONSILLITIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FUSOBACTERIUM INFECTION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PALATINE TONSIL; PATHOGENICITY; PATHOLOGY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; FEMALE; FUSOBACTERIUM INFECTIONS; FUSOBACTERIUM NECROPHORUM; HUMANS; MALE; PALATINE TONSIL; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECURRENCE; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TONSILLECTOMY; TONSILLITIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79960031445     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16039629     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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