Toxic Shock Syndrome Due toClostridium sordellii:A Dramatic Postpartum and Postabortion Disease
Open Access
- 1 December 2002
- journal article
- case report
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Clinical Infectious Diseases
- Vol. 35 (11) , 1441-1443
- https://doi.org/10.1086/344464
Abstract
We describe a young woman who developed Clostridium sordellii toxic shock syndrome after having had an abortion medically induced by mifepristone (RUKeywords
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