Listeria monocytogenes meningitis in two allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplant recipients [13]

Leukemia and Lymphoma

Volumn 47, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1701-1703

  Radice, C ^a   Munoz V ^a   Castellares, C ^a   Casanova, M ^a   Serrano, D ^a   Carrion R ^a   Balsalobre, P ^a   Buno I ^a   Diez Martin J L ^a  

^a HOSPITAL GENERAL UNIVERSITARIO GREGORIO MARAÑÓN   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMPICILLIN; BUSULFAN; CEFOTAXIME; CEFTRIAXONE; CLARITHROMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYCLOSPORIN A; DOXORUBICIN; GENTAMICIN; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; POLYPEPTIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; PREDNISONE; RITUXIMAB; SULFAMIDE DERIVATIVE; TACROLIMUS; TRIMETHOPRIM; VANCOMYCIN; VINCRISTINE;

ADULT; ALLOGENEIC HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; BACKACHE; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; CASE REPORT; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CONFUSION; COUGHING; DAIRY PRODUCT; FEVER; FOOD INTAKE; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HEADACHE; HUMAN; LETTER; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MALE; MYELODYSPLASIA; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFRACTORY ANEMIA WITH EXCESS BLASTS; TORTICOLLIS; VOMITING;

ADULT; ANEMIA, REFRACTORY, WITH EXCESS OF BLASTS; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; LYMPHOMA, NON-HODGKIN; MALE; MENINGITIS, LISTERIA; MIDDLE AGED; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS;

EID: 33748551347     PISSN: 10428194     EISSN: 10292403     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10428190600648135     Document Type: Letter

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