Bacterial complications of strongyloidiasis: Streptococcus bovis meningitis

Southern Medical Journal

Volumn 92, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 728-731

  Link, Kurt ^a,b   Orenstein, Robert ^a  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; EOSINOPHILIA; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; MALE; STREPTOCOCCUS BOVIS; STRONGYLOIDES STERCORALIS; STRONGYLOIDIASIS; SUPERINFECTION;

ANIMALS; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; BACTEREMIA; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; MALE; MENINGITIS, BACTERIAL; MIDDLE AGED; PREDNISONE; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS BOVIS; STRONGYLOIDES STERCORALIS; STRONGYLOIDIASIS; TEMPORAL ARTERITIS;

EID: 0032781132     PISSN: 00384348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007611-199907000-00016     Document Type: Article

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