Persistent Neutrophilic Meningitis in an Immunocompetent Patient after Basilar Skull Fracture: Case Report

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 11, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Green, Jaime S ^a   Abeles, Shira R ^a   Uslan, Daniel Z ^b   Mehta, Sanjay R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEFTAZIDIME; CEFTRIAXONE; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DOXYCYCLINE; IMIPENEM; LINEZOLID; MEROPENEM; MOXIFLOXACIN; VANCOMYCIN; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; DRUG FEVER; DRUG MEGADOSE; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; FEMALE; FEVER; HEADACHE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT; MAINTENANCE THERAPY; MENINGISM; MENINGITIS; MENTAL HEALTH; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NAUSEA; NECK INJURY; NOCARDIA; NOCARDIA CYRIACIGEORGICA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PACHYMENININGITIS; PERSISTENT NEUTROPHILIC MENINGITIS; PHOTOPHOBIA; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PLEOCYTOSIS; RELAPSE; RIGIDITY; SKULL BASE FRACTURE; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA; TREATMENT DURATION; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NEUTROPHIL;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; MENINGITIS, BACTERIAL; MIDDLE AGED; NEUTROPHILS; NOCARDIA; SKULL FRACTURE, BASILAR;

EID: 79956027147     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-11-136     Document Type: Article

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