Listeria meningitis and ventriculitis in an immunocompetent child: Case report and literature review

Infection

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 207-211

  Ben Shimol, S ^a   Einhorn, M ^a   Greenberg, D ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

L. monocytogenes; Listeria; Meningitis; Ventriculitis

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CEFTRIAXONE; DEXAMETHASONE; GENTAMICIN; GLUCOSE; IRON; SODIUM; VANCOMYCIN;

ABDUCENS NERVE PARALYSIS; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BRAIN ABSCESS; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN RADIOGRAPHY; BRAIN VENTRICLE PERITONEUM SHUNT; BRAIN VENTRICULITIS; CASE REPORT; CHILD; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFUSION; DETERIORATION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HYDROCEPHALUS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; LETHARGY; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; LISTERIOSIS; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; NEUTROPHIL COUNT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; REVIEW; SODIUM BLOOD LEVEL; STRABISMUS; TREATMENT DURATION; VOMITING;

AMPICILLIN; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CEREBRAL VENTRICULITIS; CHILD; FEMALE; GENTAMICINS; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MENINGITIS, LISTERIA; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84863185069     PISSN: 03008126     EISSN: 14390973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s15010-011-0177-6     Document Type: Review

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