Adult Enterobacter meningitis: A high incidence of coinfection with other pathogens and frequent association with neurosurgical procedures

Infection

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 75-79

  Huang, C R ^a   Lu, C H ^a   Chang, W N ^a  

^a CHANG GUNG MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Adult bacterial meningitis; Coinfection; Enterobacter infection; Multiple antibiotic resistance

Indexed keywords

CEPHALOSPORIN; IMIPENEM; MEROPENEM;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENTEROBACTER; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MALE; MENINGITIS; NEUROSURGERY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE; ENTEROBACTER; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE INFECTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; KLEBSIELLA INFECTIONS; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MALE; MENINGITIS, BACTERIAL; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 0035049092     PISSN: 03008126     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s15010-001-0087-0     Document Type: Article

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