Central nervous system infection with Listeria monocytogenes

Current Infectious Disease Reports

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 300-306

  Clauss, Heather E ^b   Lorber, Bennett ^a  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINOGLYCOSIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AMPICILLIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; CHLORAMPHENICOL; COTRIMOXAZOLE; GENTAMICIN; IMIPENEM; IRON; LISTERIOLYSIN O; MEROPENEM; PENICILLIN G; RIFAMPICIN; UVOMORULIN; VANCOMYCIN;

BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BRAIN ABSCESS; BRAIN STEM ENCEPHALITIS; CARDIOPULMONARY INSUFFICIENCY; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM INFECTION; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG POTENTIATION; DRUG TREATMENT FAILURE; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ENCEPHALITIS; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD SAFETY; HEADACHE; HIGH TEMPERATURE; HUMAN; INFECTION PREVENTION; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; LISTERIAL MENINGITIS; LISTERIOSIS; MONOTHERAPY; MUSCULOSKELETAL STIFFNESS; NAUSEA; NEWBORN INFECTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOGENESIS; PHAGOCYTOSIS; POPULATION RISK; PROTEIN INTERACTION; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SEIZURE; SEPSIS; SPINAL CORD DISEASE; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION;

EID: 56349134533     PISSN: 15233847     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11908-008-0049-0     Document Type: Review

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