Travel-related cerebro-meningeal infections: The 8-year experience of a french infectious diseases unit

Journal of Travel Medicine

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1-7

  Rapp, Christophe ^a   Aoun, Olivier ^a   Ficko, Cécile ^a   Imbert, Patrick ^a   Barruet, Régine ^a   Debord, Thierry ^a  

^a SERVICE D ENDOCRINOLOGIE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR; AMOXICILLIN; CEFOTAXIME; CEFTRIAXONE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICA; AGED; ARMY; ARTICLE; ASIA; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BLOOD SMEAR; BRAIN INFECTION; BRUCELLA MELITENSIS; CEREBROMENINGEAL INFECTION; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; ENCEPHALITIS; ENTEROVIRUS; EUROPE; FEMALE; FEVER; HEADACHE; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS 1; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; INTENSIVE CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MALE; MENINGISM; MENINGITIS; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIAE; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NEUROIMAGING; NONHUMAN; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SALMONELLA TYPHI; TOURISM; TRAVEL; TROPICAL DISEASE; VIRUS INFECTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; FEMALE; FRANCE; HOSPITALS, MILITARY; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS; TRAVEL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 74049089038     PISSN: 11951982     EISSN: 17088305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1708-8305.2009.00361.x     Document Type: Article

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