Meningitis Due to Multiple-Resistant Penicillin- and Cefotaxime- Intermediate Streptococcus pneumoniae in a German Child after Bone Marrow Transplantation

Infection

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 425-427

  Buxmann, H ^a   Soerensen, J ^a   Koehl, U ^a   Schwabe, D ^a   Klingebiel, T ^a   Reinert, R R ^b   Schaefer, V ^c  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL FRANKFURT   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; CEFOTAXIME; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; ERYTHROMYCIN; ETOPOSIDE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; LYMPHOCYTE ANTIBODY; PENICILLIN G; TETRACYCLINE; VANCOMYCIN;

ARTICLE; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; CASE REPORT; FRANCE; GERMANY; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HUMAN; ITALY; MALE; MENINGITIS; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NETHERLANDS; SCANDINAVIA; SCHOOL CHILD; SPAIN; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 0346846739     PISSN: 03008126     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s15010-003-3134-1     Document Type: Article

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