Severe, widespread vasculopathy in late-onset group B streptococcal meningitis

Pediatrics International

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1000-1003

  Iijima, Shigeo ^a   Shirai, Masami ^a   Ohzeki, Takehiko ^a  

^a HAMAMATSU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bacterial meningitis; Cerebral infarction; Magnetic resonance imaging; Venous sinus thrombosis

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; IMMUNOGLOBULIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BLOOD CULTURE; BRAIN STEM; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CASE REPORT; CEREBELLUM; CEREBRAL BLINDNESS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ENCEPHALOMALACIA; FEMALE; GRAND MAL SEIZURE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INFANT; LABORATORY TEST; LETHARGY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MENINGITIS; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUADRIPLEGIA; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; VAGINAL DELIVERY; VASCULAR DISEASE;

BRAIN; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MENINGITIS, BACTERIAL; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 36649005354     PISSN: 13288067     EISSN: 1442200X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-200X.2007.02474.x     Document Type: Article

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