Adult Pseudomonas aeruginosa meningitis: High incidence of underlying medical and/or postneurosurgical conditions and high mortality rate

Japanese Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 60, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 397-399

  Huang, C R ^a   Lu, C H ^a   Chuang, Y C ^a   Tsai, N W ^a   Chang, C C ^a   Chen, S F ^a   Wang, H C ^a   Chien, C C ^a   Chang, W N ^a  

^a CHANG GUNG UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEFEPIME; CEFTAZIDIME; CEFTRIAXONE; CEPHALOSPORIN; CIPROFLOXACIN; IMIPENEM; MEROPENEM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID CULTURE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID LEVEL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; DRUG RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MORTALITY; NEUROSURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PROGNOSIS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENINGITIS, BACTERIAL; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTIONS;

EID: 36549062951     PISSN: 13446304     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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