Development of listerial meningitis during ciprofloxacin treatment

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 1340-1341

  Wing, Edward J ^a   Grumbach, Nicholas M ^a   Mylonakis, Eleftherios ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR; AMPICILLIN; CEFTRIAXONE; CIPROFLOXACIN; GENTAMICIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ADULT; AMNESIA; ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; HAIRY CELL LEUKEMIA; HUMAN; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MALE; MENINGITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE; SPLENECTOMY; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREMOR;

ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; CIPROFLOXACIN; HUMANS; MALE; MENINGITIS, LISTERIA; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 0033509058     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/313488     Document Type: Article

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