Interest of postmortem-collected specimens in the diagnosis of fulminant meningococcal sepsis

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 65-66

  Ploy, Marie Cécile ^a   Garnier, Fabien ^a   Languepin, Jeanne ^a   Fermeaux, Véronique ^a   Martin, Christian ^a   Denis, François ^a  

^a DUPUYTREN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

Neisseria meningitidis; Postmortem specimens; Purpura fulminans

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CASE REPORT; DEATH; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; EPIDEMIC MENINGITIS; FULMINATING PURPURA; GRAM NEGATIVE SEPSIS; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MENINGOCOCCOSIS; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; AUTOPSY; CULTURE MEDIA; FATAL OUTCOME; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MENINGOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS, SEROGROUP C; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PURPURA, SCHOENLEIN-HENOCH; SEPSIS; SPECIMEN HANDLING;

EID: 18844421930     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2004.12.012     Document Type: Article

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