Meningitis in adults due to Campylobacter fetus subspecies fetus

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 906-907

  Dronda, Fernando ^a,b   García Arata, Isabel ^b   Navas, Enrique ^b   De Rafael, Luis ^b  

^a HOSPITAL RAMÓN Y CAJAL   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALCALÁ   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; AMPICILLIN; CEFAZOLIN; CEFOTAXIME; CEFTRIAXONE; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLAVULANIC ACID; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; OFLOXACIN; THIAMPHENICOL; TOBRAMYCIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BLOOD CULTURE; CAMPYLOBACTER FETUS; CASE REPORT; CELLULITIS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID CULTURE; FEMALE; FEVER; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; HEADACHE; HUMAN; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; MALE; NAUSEA; NECK PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VOMITING;

EID: 2442727489     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/517168     Document Type: Article

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