Successful treatment of listerial brain abscess: A case report and literature review

Internal Medicine

Volumn 41, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 1073-1078

  Maezawa, Yoshiro ^a   Hirasawa, Akira ^a   Abe, Tsuyosi ^a   Kawamura, Harukiyo ^a   Sekiguchi, Kenji ^a   Kunimoto, Masaya ^a   Sato, Tadatsugu ^a   Wakabayashi, Yoshihisa ^a   Nishikawa, Tetsuo ^a  

^a YOKOHAMA ROSAI HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Blood culture; Listeria monocytogenes; Opportunistic infection

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CEPHALOSPORIN; CORTICOSTEROID; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PIPERACILLIN; PREDNISOLONE; STEROID; VINCRISTINE; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD CULTURE; BRAIN ABSCESS; CASE REPORT; DIABETES MELLITUS; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EOSINOPHILIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGING SYSTEM; IMMUNOBLASTIC LYMPHADENOPATHY; INTERSTITIAL PNEUMONIA; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; LISTERIOSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; REMISSION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; MIDDLE AGED; REVIEW;

BRAIN ABSCESS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LISTERIA INFECTIONS; MIDDLE AGED; PENICILLINS; PIPERACILLIN; REMISSION INDUCTION;

EID: 1842866464     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.41.1073     Document Type: Article

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