Listeria meningitis in transplant recipients

Wiener Klinische Wochenschrift

Volumn 117, Issue 5-6, 2005, Pages 229-233

  Wiesmayr, Silke ^a   Tabarelli, Walther ^a   Stelzmueller, Ingrid ^a   Nachbaur, David ^a   Boesmueller, Claudia ^a   Wykypiel, Heinz ^a   Pfausler, Bettina ^a   Margreiter, Raimund ^a   Allerberger, Franz ^b   Bonatti, Hugo ^a,b  

^a INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

Infection; Listeriosis; Meningitis; Transplantation

Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR; AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AZATHIOPRINE; CALCINEURIN INHIBITOR; CEFAMANDOLE; CILASTATIN; CILASTATIN PLUS IMIPENEM; COTRIMOXAZOLE; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYCLOSPORIN A; EPIRUBICIN; GANCICLOVIR; GENTAMICIN; IMIPENEM; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M ANTIBODY; INTERLEUKIN 2 RECEPTOR ANTIBODY; MEROPENEM; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; STEROID; TOBRAMYCIN;

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ALLOGENIC BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BREAST CANCER; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CAUSE OF DEATH; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID CULTURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; FEVER; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; LISTERIOSIS; MALE; MASTECTOMY; MEDICAL RECORD; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; RECIPIENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; SYMPTOM;

ADULT; AGED; AUSTRIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MENINGITIS, LISTERIA; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; TRANSPLANTS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 20844455100     PISSN: 00435325     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00508-005-0311-5     Document Type: Review

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