Bacterial and fungal meningitis in patients with cancer

Neurology

Volumn 70, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 943-947

  Safdieh, J E ^a,d   Mead, P A ^b   Sepkowitz, K A ^c   Kiehn, T E ^c   Abrey, L E ^c  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b NEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^d NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BRAIN VENTRICLE PERITONEUM SHUNT; CANCER PATIENT; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOCOCCUS; FEMALE; FEVER; FUNGAL MENINGITIS; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE COCCI; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HEMATOLOGIC MALIGNANCY; HUMAN; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NEUROSURGERY; NEUTROPENIA; PLEOCYTOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLID TUMOR; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 41149167666     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/01.wnl.0000305960.85546.5f     Document Type: Article

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