Cure of Listeria monocytogenes meningitis after early transition to oral therapy

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 54, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 2276-2277

  Grant, Matthew H ^a   Ravreby, Hannah ^a   Lorber, Bennett ^a  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DEXAMETHASONE; GLUCOSE; MOXIFLOXACIN; PENICILLIN G; PROTEIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ADULT; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFUSION; DIARRHEA; DRUG EFFICACY; FEMALE; FEVER; GRAM STAINING; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; LETTER; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; LISTERIOSIS; MUSCLE RIGIDITY; NECK MUSCLE; NONHUMAN; PERSONALITY DISORDER; PHOTOPHOBIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT RESPONSE; VOMITING;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MENINGITIS, LISTERIA; MIDDLE AGED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRIMETHOPRIM-SULFAMETHOXAZOLE COMBINATION;

EID: 77951211111     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: 10986596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.01815-09     Document Type: Letter

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