Nasal lymphatics as a novel invasion and dissemination route of bacterial meningitis

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 72, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 694-697

  Filippidis, Aristotelis ^a   Fountas, Kostas N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF LARISSA   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HUMAN; LYMPHATIC SYSTEM; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; SUBARACHNOID SPACE;

HUMANS; LYMPHATIC SYSTEM; MENINGITIS, BACTERIAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NOSE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE SEROTYPE B; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 62949088811     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2008.10.031     Document Type: Article

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