Successful transplantation of organs from a donor with postneurosurgical meningitis caused by Escherichia coli

Transplantation

Volumn 93, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Caballero, Francisco ^a   Puig, Mireia ^a   Santos, José Alberto ^a   Deulofeu, Roser ^b   Ballarín, José ^a   Charco, Ramón ^a   Leal, Jesús ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b Catalan Government Health Department   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMOXICILLIN; AMPICILLIN; CEFEPIME; CEFTAZIDIME; CEFTRIAXONE; CEFUROXIME; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLAVULANIC ACID; GENTAMICIN; IMIPENEM; LEVOFLOXACIN; MEROPENEM; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; TOBRAMYCIN;

ADULT; ANISOCORIA; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEVER; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYDROCEPHALUS; LETTER; MALE; NEUROSURGERY; ORGAN DONOR; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

BRAIN DEATH; HUMANS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MENINGITIS, ESCHERICHIA COLI; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; TISSUE DONORS;

EID: 84856508340     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TP.0b013e31823f9093     Document Type: Letter

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