Infectious myelitis

Current Neurology and Neuroscience Reports

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 633-641

  Mihai, Cornelia ^a   Jubelt, Burk ^b  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b SUNY UPSTATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute flaccid paralysis; CNS infections; Infectious myelitis; Transverse myelitis

Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR; AMPHOTERICIN B; CASPOFUNGIN; CEFTRIAXONE; CLARITHROMYCIN; CORTICOSTEROID; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DOXYCYCLINE; FLUCONAZOLE; FLUCYTOSINE; FOLINIC ACID; GADOLINIUM; GANCICLOVIR; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; PENICILLIN G; POLIOMYELITIS VACCINE; PRAZIQUANTEL; PROBENECID; PYRIMETHAMINE; RIFAMPICIN; ROXITHROMYCIN; STEROID; SULFADIAZINE;

ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS; BACTERIAL MYELITIS; BRUCELLOSIS; CANDIDA; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM INFECTION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COCCIDIOIDOMYCOSIS; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CRYPTOCOCCAL MENINGITIS; CYSTICERCOSIS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ENTEROVIRUS INFECTION; EPSTEIN BARR VIRUS INFECTION; FLACCID PARALYSIS; FLAVIVIRUS INFECTION; FUNGAL MYELITIS; HERPES VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN; INFECTIOUS MYELITIS; LABORATORY TEST; LAMINECTOMY; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; LYME DISEASE; MEDICAL HISTORY; MUSCLE FATIGUE; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIA; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIAE; MYELITIS; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PICORNAVIRUS INFECTION; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; SYPHILITIC MYELITIS; TOXOPLASMOSIS; TUBERCULOSIS MYELITIS; VECTOR CONTROL; VIRAL MYELITIS; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; WEAKNESS;

CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNGAL INFECTIONS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM PARASITIC INFECTIONS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM VIRAL DISEASES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; MYELITIS;

EID: 84870490902     PISSN: 15284042     EISSN: 15346293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11910-012-0306-3     Document Type: Article

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