Human meningitis caused by Streptococcus suis

Journal of Medical Microbiology

Volumn 62, Issue PART3, 2013, Pages 483-485

  Zalas Wiecek, Patrycja ^a   Michalska, Anna ^a   Grabczewska, Edyta ^a   Olczak, Anita ^a   Pawłowska, Małgorzata ^a   Gospodarek, Eugenia ^a  

^a NICOLAUS COPERNICUS UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEFOTAXIME; CLINDAMYCIN; DEXAVEN; IMIPENEM; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; PREDNISONE; STEROID; TEICOPLANIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VANCOMYCIN;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BLOOD CULTURE; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID CULTURE; CHILL; COLORIMETRY; DIZZINESS; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; ENT EXAMINATION; FEVER; FOLLOW UP; HEADACHE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; LETHARGY; LEUKOCYTE DIFFERENTIAL COUNT; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; MALE; MEAT INDUSTRY; MEDICAL HISTORY; MENINGISM; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NEUTROPHIL; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; POLAND; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEROID THERAPY; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; STREPTOCOCCUS SUIS; VOMITING;

ADULT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MALE; MEAT-PACKING INDUSTRY; MENINGITIS, BACTERIAL; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; POLAND; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS SUIS;

EID: 84874201057     PISSN: 00222615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/jmm.0.046599-0     Document Type: Article

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