Nosocomial meningitis caused by gas producing Klebsiella pneumoniae

BMJ Case Reports

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Costerus, Joost M ^a   Van De Beek, Diederik ^a   Brouwer, Matthijs C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; CEFTRIAXONE; CIPROFLOXACIN; GENTAMICIN; MEROPENEM;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BODY TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID CULTURE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID DRAINAGE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID EXAMINATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; CRANIOTOMY; DEATH; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; GENERAL CONDITION DETERIORATION; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE INFECTION; LATERAL BRAIN VENTRICLE; NERVOUS SYSTEM INJURY; NEUROIMAGING; OBSTRUCTIVE HYDROCEPHALUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

EID: 84862088578     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1757790X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bcr.11.2011.5137     Document Type: Article

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