Community-acquired Capnocytophaga canimorsus meningitis in adults: report of one case with a subacute course and deafness, and literature review

Enfermedades Infecciosas y Microbiologia Clinica

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 33-36

  Gasch, Oriol ^a   Fernández, Nuria ^a   Armisen, Alberto ^a   Verdaguer, Ricardo ^a   Fernández, Pedro ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI DE BELLVITGE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Capnocytophaga canimorsus; Deafness; Dog; Listeria monocytogene; Meningitis

Indexed keywords

AMINOGLYCOSIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEFOTAXIME; CIPROFLOXACIN; CORTICOSTEROID; DEXAMETHASONE; IBUPROFEN; IMIPENEM;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; AUDIOMETRY; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; CAPNOCYTOPHAGA; CAPNOCYTOPHAGA CANIMORSUS; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID CULTURE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DOG; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; FEVER; HEADACHE; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; MALE; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATION; REPEATED DRUG DOSE; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

AMPICILLIN; ANIMALS; BITES AND STINGS; CAPNOCYTOPHAGA; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; DEXAMETHASONE; DOGS; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HAND INJURIES; HEARING LOSS, BILATERAL; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTOSIS; MALE; MENINGITIS, BACTERIAL; MIDDLE AGED; WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 59749100581     PISSN: 0213005X     EISSN: 15781852     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eimc.2008.01.001     Document Type: Article

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