Listeria monocytogenes: Epidemiology, human disease, and mechanisms of brain invasion

FEMS Immunology and Medical Microbiology

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 151-165

  Drevets, Douglas A ^a,b   Bronze, Michael S ^b  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacterial infection; Meningitis; Monocyte subpopulations; Monocytes

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; BACTERIOCIN; CEFALOTIN; CEFEPIME; CEFOTAXIME; CEPHALOSPORIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; GENTAMICIN; MONOBACTAM; NALIDIXIC ACID; OFLOXACIN; PENICILLIN BINDING PROTEIN; PENICILLIN G; QUINOLONE DERIVATIVE; SULFAMETHOXAZOLE; TETRACYCLINE; TRIMETHOPRIM;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BLOOD CULTURE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM INFECTION; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CLINICAL FEATURE; DRUG SENSITIVITY; DRUG TOLERANCE; ENCEPHALITIS; FEVER; GASTROENTERITIS; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; KINETICS; LABORATORY TEST; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; LISTERIOSIS; MENINGITIS; MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; MORTALITY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PLACENTAL TRANSFER; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; VAGINAL DELIVERY; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; HUMANS; LISTERIA INFECTIONS; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MICE; MONOCYTES;

EID: 45149091838     PISSN: 09288244     EISSN: 1574695X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-695X.2008.00404.x     Document Type: Short Survey

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