Post-surgical enterococcal meningitis: Clinical and epidemiological study of 20 cases

Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 38, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 584-588

  Guardado, Rodríguez ^a   Asensi, V ^a   Torres, J ^a   Perez F ^a   Blanco, A ^a   Maradona, J ^a   Carton J ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO CENTRAL DE ASTURIAS   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMINOGLYCOSIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CARBAPENEM; CEFAZOLIN; CEFOTAXIME; CEFTAZIDIME; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; GENTAMICIN; GLUCOSE; IMIPENEM; MEROPENEM; STREPTOMYCIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN TUMOR; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; FEMALE; HEAD INJURY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; LEUKOCYTE; MALE; MORTALITY; NEUROSURGERY; NONHUMAN; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; RECURRENT INFECTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CROSS INFECTION; ENTEROCOCCUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENINGITIS, BACTERIAL; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 33746614714     PISSN: 00365548     EISSN: 16511980     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00365540600606416     Document Type: Article

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