Enteroviral meningitis does not exclude concurrent bacterial meningitis

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 49, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 3442-

  Basmaci, Romain ^a   Mariani, Patricia ^a   Delacroix, Géraldine ^a   Azib, Sonia ^a   Faye, Albert ^a   Taha, Muhamed Kheir ^b   Bingen, Edouard ^a   Bonacorsi, Stéphane ^a  

^a HÔPITAL ROBERT DEBRÉ   (France)

^b INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; CEFOTAXIME; CEFTRIAXONE; GLUCOSE; VANCOMYCIN;

BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; ENTEROVIRAL MENINGITIS; ENTEROVIRUS; FEVER; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; KIDNEY GRAFT; LETTER; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MENINGOCOCCOSIS; MIXED INFECTION; MUSCLE RIGIDITY; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NEUTROPHIL COUNT; NONHUMAN; PNEUMOCOCCAL MENINGITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CEREBROSPINAL FLUID LEVEL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; VIRUS MENINGITIS;

ENTEROVIRUS; ENTEROVIRUS INFECTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENINGITIS, VIRAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VIROLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 80052192439     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.01015-11     Document Type: Letter

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