Streptococcus suis meningitis: First case report from Portugal

Journal of Infection

Volumn 56, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 482-483

  Taipa, Ricardo ^a,b   Lopes, Virgínia ^a   Magalhães, Marina ^a  

^a HOSPITAL DE SANTO ANTÓNIO   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINHO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; CEFOTAXIME; PENICILLIN G;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CHILL; FEVER; HEADACHE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; LETTER; LISTERIA; MALE; PLEOCYTOSIS; PORTUGAL; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS SUIS; UNCONSCIOUSNESS; VOMITING;

ADULT; ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; HUMANS; MALE; MENINGITIS, BACTERIAL; PORTUGAL; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS SUIS; SWINE; SWINE DISEASES; ZOONOSES;

EID: 44649194963     PISSN: 01634453     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jinf.2008.03.002     Document Type: Letter

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