Report of neonatal meningitis due to Salmonella enterica serotype agona and review of breast milk-associated neonatal Salmonella infections

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 47, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 3045-3049

  Cooke, Fiona J ^a   Ginwalla, Sara ^a   Hampton, Michael D ^b   Wain, John ^b   Ross Russell, Robert ^a   Lever, Andrew ^a   Farrington, Mark ^a  

^a ADDENBROOKE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CEFOTAXIME; CIPROFLOXACIN; GENTAMICIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; METRONIDAZOLE; PENICILLIN G;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BLOOD CULTURE; BREAST MILK; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MENINGITIS; NECROTIZING ENTEROCOLITIS; NEWBORN; NEWBORN INFECTION; NEWBORN SEPSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; SEROTYPE; TREATMENT DURATION; TYPHOID FEVER; URINALYSIS;

BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; DNA FINGERPRINTING; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; EPIDEMIOLOGY, MOLECULAR; FECES; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; MENINGITIS, BACTERIAL; MILK, HUMAN; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; SALMONELLA INFECTIONS; SEROTYPING;

SALMONELLA; SALMONELLA ENTERICA;

EID: 69949106185     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.01064-09     Document Type: Article

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