Streptococcus suis meningitis: First case in humans described in Latin America [2];Meningitis primaria por Streptococcus suis: Primer caso en humanos descrito en America Latina

Enfermedades Infecciosas y Microbiologia Clinica

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 110-

  Lopreto, Carmen ^a   Lopardo, Horacio Ángel ^b   Bardi, María Cecilia ^a   Gottschalk, Marcelo ^c  

^a Hospital Interzonal General de Agudos de La Plata   (Argentina)

^b HOSPITAL DE PEDIATRÍA PROF DR JUAN P GARRAHAN   (Argentina)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEFOTAXIME; CEFTRIAXONE; DEXAMETHASONE;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; FEMALE; FEVER; HEADACHE; HUMAN; LETTER; MENINGITIS; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; STREPTOCOCCUS SUIS; SYMPTOM; VOMITING;

EID: 16844385950     PISSN: 0213005X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1157/13071618     Document Type: Letter

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