Human Streptococcus suis meningitis in the United States [14]

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 354, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1325-

  Willenburg, Kara S ^a   Sentochnik, Deborah E ^a   Zadoks, Ruth N ^b  

^a BASSETT MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; CEFTRIAXONE; CLINDAMYCIN; DEXAMETHASONE; VANCOMYCIN;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BODY WEIGHT; CASE REPORT; DEMOGRAPHY; DISKITIS; GRAM STAINING; HUMAN; LETTER; LOW BACK PAIN; MALE; MENINGISM; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OSTEOMYELITIS; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPONDYLITIS; STREPTOCOCCUS SUIS;

AGRICULTURAL WORKERS' DISEASES; ANIMALS; HUMANS; MALE; MENINGITIS, BACTERIAL; MIDDLE AGED; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS SUIS; SWINE; UNITED STATES; ZOONOSES;

EID: 33645097484     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMc053089     Document Type: Letter

References (2)

1. World Health Organization Regional Office for the Western Pacific. Outbreak associated with Streptococcus suis in pigs in China: update. 2005. (Accessed March 6, 2006, at http://www.wpro.who.int/media_centre/news/ news_20050816.htm.)
2. Marie J, Morvan H, Berthelot-Herault F, et al. Antimicrobial susceptibility of Streptococcus suis isolated from swine in France and from humans in different countries between 1996 and 2000. J Antimicrob Chemother 2002;50:201-9.