Necrotizing Bacillus cereus infection of the meninges without inflammatory reaction in a patient with acute myelogenous leukemia: A case report

Acta Neuropathologica

Volumn 93, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 301-305

  Motoi, Noriko ^a   Ishida, Tsuyoshi ^a   Nakano, Imaharu ^b   Akiyama, Nobu ^a   Mitani, Kinuko ^a   Hirai, Hisamaru ^a   Yazaki, Yoshio ^a   Machinami, Rikuo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bacillus cereus; Immunocompromised patient; Necrotizing leptomeningeal infection

Indexed keywords

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BACILLUS CEREUS; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN CORTEX; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; COMA; FATALITY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFLAMMATION; LEPTOMENINX; MALE; NEUROPATHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE;

BACILLUS CEREUS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA, MYELOID; MALE; MENINGES; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 0031042464     PISSN: 00016322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004010050618     Document Type: Article

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