Streptococcus suis meningitis without history of animal contact, Italy

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 14, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1946-1948

  Manzin, Aldo ^a   Palmieri, Claudio ^b   Serra, Corrado ^a   Saddi, Barbara ^c   Princivalli, Maria Stella ^b   Loi, Giovanni ^d   Angioni, Giuseppe ^c   Tiddia, Franco ^c   Varaldo, Pietro E ^b   Facinelli, Bruna ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAGLIARI   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITÀ POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE   (Italy)

^c SS Trinit Hospital   (Italy)

^d DEPARTMENT OF RADIOLOGY   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEFTRIAXONE; CHLORAMPHENICOL; DEXAMETHASONE; ERYTHROMYCIN; LEVOFLOXACIN; PENICILLIN G; TETRACYCLINE; VANCOMYCIN;

ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FEVER; GRAM STAINING; HEADACHE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; ITALY; LABORATORY TEST; LETTER; LUNG CARCINOMA; MALAISE; MALE; NAUSEA; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; SEROTYPING; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; STREPTOCOCCUS SUIS;

AGED; ANIMALS; CONTACT TRACING; HUMANS; ITALY; MALE; MENINGITIS, BACTERIAL; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS SUIS; SWINE;

EID: 57049129901     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1412.080679     Document Type: Letter

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