Trichomonas foetus meningoencephalitis after allogeneic peripheral blood stem cell transplantation

Bone Marrow Transplantation

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 89-91

  Okamoto, S ^a,b   Wakui, M ^a   Kobayashi, H ^a   Sato, N ^a   Ishida, A ^a   Tanabe, M ^a   Takeuchi, T ^a   Fukushima, S ^a   Yamada, T ^a   Ikeda, Y ^a  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KEIO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Allogeneic transplantation; Infection; Meningitis; Peripheral blood stem cell; Trichomonad

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIPLOPIA; FEVER; HEADACHE; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; MALE; MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; MENTAL DETERIORATION; NECK; PLEOCYTOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGIDITY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SEIZURE; TRICHOMONAS FOETUS; VERTIGO;

EID: 17544394395     PISSN: 02683369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.bmt.1701032     Document Type: Article

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