Listeria monocytogenes meningitis: Serotype distribution and patient characteristics in The Netherlands, 1976-95

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 128, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 405-409

  Aouaj, Y ^a   Spanjaard, L ^a,b   Van Leeuwen, N ^a   Dankert, J ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

^b ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; FATALITY; FEMALE; HEMATOLOGIC DISEASE; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INCIDENCE; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; NETHERLANDS; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; SEROTYPE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE OF ONSET; AGED; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MALE; MENINGITIS, LISTERIA; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEROTYPING; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0036296102     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268802006969     Document Type: Article

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