Human tuberculous meningitis caused by mycobacterium caprae

Case Reports in Neurology

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 54-60

  Hansen, Niels ^a   Seiler, Carola ^a   Rumpf, Julian ^a   Kraft, Peter ^a   Dlaske, Henry ^a   Abele Horn, Marianne ^b   Muellges, Wolfgang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cerebrospinal fluid culture; Fosfomycin; Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex; Mycobacteriumcaprae; Tuberculous meningitis

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; ANTIHISTAMINIC AGENT; CATECHOLAMINE; CEFTRIAXONE; CIPROFLOXACIN; FOSFOMYCIN; ISONIAZID; MEROPENEM; PYRAZINAMIDE; RIBOSOME DNA; RIFAMPICIN;

AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID CULTURE; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; GENOTYPE; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; MENINGITIS; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; MYCOBACTERIUM CAPRAE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RASH; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; THERAPY EFFECT; TOXIC EPIDERMAL NECROLYSIS; TREATMENT RESPONSE; TUBERCULOUS MENINGITIS;

EID: 84860723287     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1662680X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000337299     Document Type: Article

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