Meningitis due to Neisseria subflava: Case report and review

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 615-617

  Baraldès, Maria A ^b   Domingo, Pere ^a,b   Barrio, Josep Li ^b   Pericas, Roser ^b   Gurguí, Mercé ^b   Vazquez, Guillermo ^b  

^a HOSPITAL DE LA SANTA CREU I SANT PAU   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID FISTULA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; INFANT; MALE; NEISSERIA; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENINGITIS, BACTERIAL; NEISSERIA; NEISSERIACEAE INFECTIONS;

EID: 0034087410     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/313700     Document Type: Article

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