Clostridium tertium meningitis as the presenting sign of a meningocele in a twelve-year-old child

Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 527-529

  Kourtis, Athena P ^a   Weiner, Risa ^a   Belson, Karen ^a   Richards Jr , Frank O ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Clostridium tertium; meningitis; meningocele; rectovaginal fistula

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACKACHE; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID CYTOLOGY; CHILD; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLOSTRIDIUM; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; MENINGOCELE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTOVAGINAL FISTULA;

CHILD; CLOSTRIDIUM; CLOSTRIDIUM INFECTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MENINGITIS, BACTERIAL; MENINGOCELE; RECTAL FISTULA; VAGINAL FISTULA;

EID: 0030958521     PISSN: 08913668     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006454-199705000-00017     Document Type: Article

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