Cerebral melioidosis in Singapore: A review of five cases

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 96, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 72-76

  Chadwick, D R ^a   Ang, B ^a   Sitoh, Y Y ^b   Lee, C C ^a  

^a TAN TOCK SENG HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

^b National Neuroscience Institute   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Abscess; Burkholderia pseudomallei; Case reports; Cerebral disease; Clinical aspects; Melioidosis; Neurology; Singapore

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEFTAZIDIME; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DOXYCYCLINE; IMIPENEM; TETRACYCLINE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BRAIN ABSCESS; BRAIN INFECTION; BRAIN SURGERY; BRAIN VENTRICLE PERITONEUM SHUNT; BURKHOLDERIA PSEUDOMALLEI; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FACIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; MALE; MELIOIDOSIS; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCORING SYSTEM; SEROLOGY; SINGAPORE; SINUSITIS; SURGICAL DRAINAGE; SURVIVAL;

ADULT; AGED; BRAIN ABSCESS; BURKHOLDERIA PSEUDOMALLEI; CEFTAZIDIME; DRAINAGE; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMIPENEM; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MELIOIDOSIS; MIDDLE AGED;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BURKHOLDERIA; BURKHOLDERIA PSEUDOMALLEI; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0036327922     PISSN: 00359203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0035-9203(02)90248-8     Document Type: Review

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