Brain abscesses complicating Staphylococcus aureus sepsis in a premature infant

Infection

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 36-38

  Vartzelis, G ^a   Theodoridou, M ^a   Daikos, G L ^a   Dellagrammaticas, H ^a   Syriopoulou, V P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEFOTAXIME; COTRIMOXAZOLE; GENTAMICIN; IMIPENEM; MEROPENEM; OXACILLIN; RIFAMPICIN; TEICOPLANIN; VANCOMYCIN; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BRAIN ABSCESS; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CULTURE MEDIUM; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DISEASE COURSE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; INFANT; LABORATORY TEST; LEUKOCYTOSIS; MACROPHAGE; PATIENT; PERIODIC ACID SCHIFF STAIN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREMATURITY; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SEPSIS; SIDE EFFECT; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TROPHERYMA WHIPPELII; MICROBIOLOGY; NEWBORN; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BRAIN ABSCESS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE, DISEASES; SEPSIS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS;

EID: 17844370219     PISSN: 03008126     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s15010-005-4062-z     Document Type: Article

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