Severe cysticercal meningitis: Clinical and imaging characteristics

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 82, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 121-125

  Cárdenas, Graciela ^a   Jung, Helgi ^a   Ríos, Camilo ^a   Fleury, Agnes ^a   Soto Hernández, José Luís ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGY AND NEUROSURGERY   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBENDAZOLE; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID; PRAZIQUANTEL;

ABNORMAL LABORATORY RESULT; ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID CULTURE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID CYTOLOGY; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID SHUNTING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; CYSTICERCOID; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; FUNGUS CULTURE; HUMAN; HYPOGLYCORRACHIA; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENINGITIS; MORBIDITY; MYCOBACTERIUM; NEUROCYSTICERCOSIS; NEUROIMAGING; PLEOCYTOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK REDUCTION; SEVERE CYSTICERCAL MENGITIS; SEVERE CYSTICERCAL MENINGITIS;

FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROCYSTICERCOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CORYNEBACTERINEAE; FUNGI;

EID: 74049157683     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.2010.09-0347     Document Type: Article

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