Neisseria sicca meningitis following intracranial hemorrhage and ventriculostomy tube placement

Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery

Volumn 109, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 918-921

  Carter, J Elliot ^a   Mizell, Kelly N ^a   Evans, Tara N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Hemorrhage; Intracranial; Meningitis; Neisseria sicca; Ventriculostomy

Indexed keywords

CEFEPIME; GLUCOSE; MANNITOL; METRONIDAZOLE; NITROPRUSSIDE SODIUM; PROTEIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ANASTOMOSIS; ARTERIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BRAIN ARTERY ANEURYSM; BRAIN DEATH; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSCIOUSNESS; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HEADACHE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; HYPERTENSION; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; NAUSEA; NEISSERIA SICCA; PHOTOPHOBIA; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POSTERIOR COMMUNICATING ARTERY; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; TEMPERATURE; VOMITING;

ANEURYSM, RUPTURED; ENCEPHALOCELE; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROCEPHALUS; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; INTRACRANIAL HEMORRHAGE, HYPERTENSIVE; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; MENINGITIS, BACTERIAL; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; NEISSERIA SICCA; NEISSERIACEAE INFECTIONS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VENTRICULOSTOMY;

EID: 35349022487     PISSN: 03038467     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clineuro.2007.08.003     Document Type: Article

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