Listeria monocytogenes sequence type 6 and increased rate of unfavorable outcome in meningitis: Epidemiologic cohort study

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 247-253

  Koopmans, Merel M ^a   Brouwer, Matthijs C ^a   Bijlsma, Merijn W ^a   Bovenkerk, Sandra ^a   Keijzers, Wendy ^a,b   Van Der Ende, Arie ^a,b   Van De Beek, Diederik ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b Netherlands Reference Laboratory for Bacterial Meningitis   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

dexamethasone; Listeria monocytogenes; meningitis; prognosis; sequence type 6

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; AZITHROMYCIN; CEFUROXIME; CEPHALOSPORIN; CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DEXAMETHASONE; GENTAMICIN;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID CULTURE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GLASGOW OUTCOME SCALE; HUMAN; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; LISTERIOSIS; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MONOTHERAPY; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPEAT PROCEDURE; TREATMENT DURATION;

DEXAMETHASONE; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MENINGITIS; PROGNOSIS; SEQUENCE TYPE 6;

ADULT; AGED; COHORT STUDIES; DEXAMETHASONE; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; IMMUNOLOGIC FACTORS; INCIDENCE; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MALE; MENINGITIS, LISTERIA; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84879643638     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: 15376591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cid/cit250     Document Type: Article

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