Neurologic manifestations in Staphylococcus aureus endocarditis: A review of 260 bacteremic cases in nondrug addicts

American Journal of Medicine

Volumn 102, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 379-386

  Røoder, Bent L ^a   Wandall, Dorte A ^a   Espersen, Frank ^a   Frimodt Møoller, Niels ^a   Skinhøoj, Peter ^a   Rosdahl, Vibeke T ^a  

^a STATENS SERUM INSTITUT   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; AORTA VALVE DISEASE; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; DENMARK; FEMALE; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MITRAL VALVE DISEASE; MORTALITY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; TRICUSPID VALVE DISEASE; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BACTEREMIA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ENDOCARDITIS, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS;

EID: 0031011476     PISSN: 00029343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9343(97)00090-9     Document Type: Article

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