Meningitis due to Leptospiria hardjo identifying a treatable cause of aseptic lymphocytic meningitis

Irish Medical Journal

Volumn 101, Issue 3, 2008, Pages

  Merwick, Aine ^a   Kelly, S ^a   Galvin, R ^a  

^a Department of Medicine National University of Ireland Cork   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PENICILLIN G;

ADULT; AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ASEPTIC MENINGITIS; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEVER; FISHERMAN; HAND INJURY; HEADACHE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; LEPTOSPIRA; LETTER; LYMPHOCYTOPENIA; MALE; MYALGIA; PHOTOPHOBIA; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; VOMITING; WORK ENVIRONMENT; ANIMAL; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LEPTOSPIROSIS; MICROBIOLOGY; RISK FACTOR; ZOONOSIS;

ADULT; ANIMALS; HUMANS; LEPTOSPIRA; LEPTOSPIROSIS; MALE; MENINGITIS, ASEPTIC; RISK FACTORS; ZOONOSES;

EID: 46349101980     PISSN: 03323102     EISSN: 03323102     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Letter

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