Listeria monocytogenes encephalitis mimicking Herpes Simplex virus encephalitis: The differential diagnostic importance of cerebrospinal fluid lactic acid levels

Heart and Lung: Journal of Acute and Critical Care

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 226-231

  Cunha, Burke A ^a   Fatehpuria, Ritu ^a   Eisenstein, Lawrence E ^a  

^a WINTHROP UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR; AMPICILLIN; CEFTRIAXONE; LACTIC ACID;

AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CHRONIC LYMPHATIC LEUKEMIA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSCIOUSNESS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EMERGENCY WARD; ENCEPHALITIS; ERYTHROCYTE; GRAM STAINING; HERPES SIMPLEX ENCEPHALITIS; HUMAN; KIDNEY AMYLOIDOSIS; LABORATORY TEST; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; PATHOGENESIS; PHOTOPHOBIA; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

AGED; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ENCEPHALITIS, HERPES SIMPLEX; HUMANS; LACTIC ACID; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MALE; MENINGITIS, LISTERIA;

EID: 34248228610     PISSN: 01479563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrtlng.2007.01.001     Document Type: Article

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