Meningitis caused by streptococcus suis serotype 14, North America

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 350-352

  Haleis, Ahmed ^a   Alfa, Michelle ^b   Gottschalk, Marcelo ^c   Bernard, Kathryn ^d   Ronald, Allan ^a   Manickam, Kanchana ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^b ST BONIFACE GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^d PUBLIC HEALTH AGENCY OF CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZITHROMYCIN; CEFEPIME; CEFOTAXIME; CEFTRIAXONE; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ERYTHROMYCIN; LEVOFLOXACIN; LINEZOLID; MEROPENEM; PENICILLIN G; TETRACYCLINE; VANCOMYCIN;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BALANCE DISORDER; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID CULTURE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONFUSION; CONVALESCENCE; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FEMALE; FEVER; GENE SEQUENCE; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; LETTER; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MENINGITIS; NORTH AMERICA; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATIENT TRANSPORT; SEROTYPE; SEROTYPING; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; STREPTOCOCCUS SUIS;

ANIMALS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; FEMALE; HUMANS; MANITOBA; MENINGITIS, BACTERIAL; MIDDLE AGED; NORTH AMERICA; SEROTYPING; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS SUIS; SWINE; SWINE DISEASES; ZOONOSES;

EID: 63849180564     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1502.080842     Document Type: Letter

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