Prospective Surveillance of Invasive Group A Streptococcal Disease, Fiji, 2005–2007

These infections are more common and case-fatality rate is higher in Fiji than in industrialized countries.

• Publication year

  2009

• Venue

  Emerging Infectious Diseases

• Publication date

  2009-02-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.3201/eid1502.080558PMID 19193265PMCID 2657613
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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