Rickettsia helvetica in patient with meningitis, Sweden, 2006

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 490-492

  Nilsson, Kenneth ^a,c,d   Elfving, Karin ^a,d   Påhlson, Carl ^b  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b MÄLARDALEN UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c Center for Clinical Research Dalarna   (Sweden)

^d FALUN HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; BACTERIAL DNA; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CEFUROXIME; DOXYCYCLINE; HEMOGLOBIN; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN B; RNA 16S; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ASTHENIA; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CASE REPORT; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DNA EXTRACTION; DNA PURIFICATION; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FEMALE; FEVER; FOLLOW UP; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; LABORATORY TEST; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MENINGITIS; MONONUCLEAR CELL; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENICITY; PLEOCYTOSIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA HELVETICA; SWEDEN; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; TREATMENT DURATION; VIRUS PNEUMONIA;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MENINGITIS, BACTERIAL; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA INFECTIONS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SWEDEN;

EID: 77649152206     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1603.090184     Document Type: Article

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