Increased Risk of Meningitis and Bacteremia Due to Listeria monocytogenes in Patients with Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 1993, Pages 224-227

  Stephens, David S ^a   Jurado, Rafael L ^a   Farley, Monica M ^a   Pereira, Eladio ^a   Harvey, R Christopher ^a   Schuchat, Anne ^a   Wenger, Jay D ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD4 ANTIGEN;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INFANT; INFECTION RISK; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MENINGITIS; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION; POPULATION RISK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADULT; AIDS-RELATED OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; BACTEREMIA; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMAN; INFANT; LISTERIA INFECTIONS; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MALE; MENINGITIS, LISTERIA; MIDDLE AGE; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEROTYPING; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, NON-P.H.S.; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.;

EID: 0027281721     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: 15376591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/clinids/17.2.224     Document Type: Article

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