Group a streptococcal meningitis in a pediatric patient

Canadian Journal of Infectious Diseases and Medical Microbiology

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 306-308

  Fanella, Sergio ^a,b   Embree, Joanne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^b Basic Medical Sciences Building ^*  (Canada)

Author keywords

Group A streptococcus; Meningitis; Otitis media; Thrombosis

Indexed keywords

BLOOD CLOTTING FACTOR 5 LEIDEN; CIPROFLOXACIN; ENOXAPARIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; GLUCOSE; HYDROCORTISONE; MEROPENEM; PENICILLIN G; PROTEIN; VANCOMYCIN; WARFARIN;

ADOLESCENT; ANOREXIA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BLOOD CULTURE; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID CYTOLOGY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONDUCTION DEAFNESS; CONSCIOUSNESS LEVEL; CONVERGENT STRABISMUS; DIPLOPIA; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; EARDRUM; ERYTHEMA; EXTERNAL JUGULAR VEIN; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FEVER; FUNGUS ISOLATION; GENE MUTATION; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HEADACHE; HUMAN; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MASTOID; MASTOIDECTOMY; MONOCYTE; NEUTROPHIL COUNT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OTALGIA; OTITIS MEDIA; OTORRHEA; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; RECURRENT DISEASE; STREPTOCOCCUS GROUP A; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; SURGICAL DRAINAGE; THROAT CULTURE; TYMPANOSTOMY TUBE; VEIN THROMBOSIS;

EID: 57149114413     PISSN: 17129532     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2008/594583     Document Type: Article

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