Fatal anthrax infection in a heroin user from Southern Germany, June 2012

Eurosurveillance

Volumn 17, Issue 26, 2012, Pages

  Holzmann, T ^a   Frangoulidis, D ^b   Simon, M ^a   Noll, P ^c   Schmoldt, S ^b   Hanczaruk, M ^b   Grass, G ^b   Pregler, M ^d   Sing, A ^e   Hormansdorfer S ^e   Bernard, H ^f   Grunow, R ^f   Zimmermann, R ^f   Schneider Brachert, W ^a   Gessner, A ^a   Reischl, U ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^b BUNDESWEHR INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^c Krankenhaus Barmherzigen Brüder   (Germany)

^d District Health Office   (Germany)

^e Bavarian Health and Food Safety Authority LGL   (Germany)

^f ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

D DIMER; DIAMORPHINE; PROCALCITONIN;

ADULT; ANEMIA; ANTHRAX; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BLEEDING; BLOOD CLOTTING; CASE REPORT; DEATH; DYSPNEA; GERMANY; HUMAN; HYPERTRANSAMINASEMIA; HYPOKALEMIA; INFECTION CONTROL; INJECTION SITE SWELLING; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ABUSE; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; NAUSEA; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; SEPTIC SHOCK; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

EID: 84863550122     PISSN: 1025496X     EISSN: 15607917     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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