Pasteurella multocida infection in a neonate: Evidence for a human-to-human horizontal transmission

Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 536-537

  Siahanidou, Tania ^a   Gika, Georgia ^a   Skiathitou, Anna Venetia ^a   Oikonomopoulos, Theodoros ^a   Alexandrou Athanassoulis, Helen ^b   Koutouzis, Emmanouil I ^a   Syriopoulou, Vassiliki P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^b Children's Hospital   (Greece)

Author keywords

Infection; Meningitis; Neonate; Pasteurella multocida; Transmission

Indexed keywords

BLOOD CLOTTING FACTOR 7; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; D DIMER; FRESH FROZEN PLASMA; GLUCOSE; HEMOGLOBIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; MEROPENEM;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BLOOD CULTURE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID CULTURE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR CLOTTING; DNA FINGERPRINTING; FEMALE; FEVER; GLUCOSE BRAIN LEVEL; HEART RATE; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; LETHARGY; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; NEUTROPHIL COUNT; NEWBORN; NEWBORN INFECTION; NEWBORN SEPSIS; OROPHARYNX; PASTEURELLA MULTOCIDA; PASTEURELLA MULTOCIDA INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROTHROMBIN TIME; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SKIN TEMPERATURE; THROMBOCYTE COUNT;

DISEASE TRANSMISSION, INFECTIOUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MENINGITIS, BACTERIAL; PASTEURELLA INFECTIONS; PASTEURELLA MULTOCIDA; SEPSIS;

EID: 84860260528     PISSN: 08913668     EISSN: 15320987     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/INF.0b013e318245debd     Document Type: Article

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