Meningitis caused by Stenotrophomonas maltophila: Case report and review of the literature

Annals of Saudi Medicine

Volumn 22, Issue 3-4, 2002, Pages 216-218

  Caylan, Rahmet ^a   Aydin, Kemalettin ^a   Koksal, Iftihar ^a  

^a KARADENIZ TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; BETA LACTAMASE; BETA LACTAMASE INHIBITOR; CARBAPENEM; CEPHALOSPORINASE; CHLORAMPHENICOL; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DEXAMETHASONE; MEROPENEM; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PHENYTOIN; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; TETRACYCLINE; TIMENTIN;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ADULT; ANASTOMOSIS; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BLOOD CULTURE; BRAIN ARTERY ANEURYSM; BRAIN VENTRICLE PERITONEUM SHUNT; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID CULTURE; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROWSINESS; FEVER; GRAM STAINING; HEADACHE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; MALE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STENOTROPHOMONAS MALTOPHILIA; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE;

EID: 0036588173     PISSN: 02564947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5144/0256-4947.2002.216     Document Type: Article

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