Human meningitis from Streptococcus equi subsp. zooepidemicus acquired as zoonoses

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 139, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 406-410

  Minces, L R ^a,c   Brown, P J ^b   Veldkamp, P J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Group C streptococci; meningitis; Streptococcus zooepidemicus; zoonoses

Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR; CEFTRIAXONE; CIPROFLOXACIN; DEXAMETHASONE; VANCOMYCIN; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ACUTE OTITIS MEDIA; ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTOSIS; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; MASTOIDITIS; MENINGITIS; MIDDLE EAR EFFUSION; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MYRINGOTOMY; OTALGIA; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; SINUSITIS; STREPTOCOCCUS EQUI ZOOEPIDEMICUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ZOONOSIS; ANIMAL; HORSE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; REVIEW; STREPTOCOCCUS EQUI; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CEFTRIAXONE; FEMALE; HORSES; HUMANS; MENINGITIS, BACTERIAL; MIDDLE AGED; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS EQUI; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ZOONOSES;

EID: 79952460195     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: 14694409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268810001184     Document Type: Article

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