Central Nervous System Infections as a Cause of an Altered Mental Status? What is the Pathogen Growing in Your Central Nervous System?

Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 535-570

  Mace, Sharon E ^a,b,c  

^a CLEVELAND CLINIC LERNER COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b METROHEALTH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Altered mental status; Central nervous system; Infections; Pathogens

Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR; AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AZITHROMYCIN; CEFOTAXIME; CEFTAZIDIME; CEFTRIAXONE; CEPHALOSPORIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CORTICOSTEROID; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DEXAMETHASONE; DOXYCYCLINE; FLUCONAZOLE; FOSCARNET; GAMMA INTERFERON; GANCICLOVIR; GENTAMICIN; MEROPENEM; NAFCILLIN; OSELTAMIVIR; OXACILLIN; PENICILLIN G; PLACEBO; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; RIBAVIRIN; RIFAMPICIN; TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT; UNINDEXED DRUG; VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ANTIBODY DETECTION; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BRAIN ABSCESS; BRAIN BIOPSY; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN HERNIA; CAT SCRATCH DISEASE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM INFECTION; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CHILD CARE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COCCIDIOIDOMYCOSIS; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DRUG ANTAGONISM; EHRLICHIOSIS; ELDERLY CARE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ENCEPHALITIS; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE INFECTION; EPIDEMIC ENCEPHALITIS; EPSTEIN BARR VIRUS INFECTION; HAEMOPHILUS INFECTION; HERPES SIMPLEX; HERPES SIMPLEX ENCEPHALITIS; HERPES ZOSTER ENCEPHALITIS; HOST RESISTANCE; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; INFLUENZA; LABORATORY TEST; LISTERIOSIS; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; LYME DISEASE; MEASLES; MENINGITIS; MENINGOCOCCOSIS; MENTAL DISEASE; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIA; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION; ORNITHOSIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PNEUMOCOCCAL MENINGITIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTION; REVIEW; RICKETTSIACEAE INFECTION; ROCKY MOUNTAIN SPOTTED FEVER; STAPHYLOCOCCAL PNEUMONIA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; SUBACUTE SCLEROSING PANENCEPHALITIS; TREPONEMATOSIS; TUBERCULOUS MENINGITIS; VIRUS INFECTION;

EID: 77955606612     PISSN: 07338627     EISSN: 07338627     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.emc.2010.03.002     Document Type: Review

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