Actionable diagnosis of neuroleptospirosis by next-generation sequencing

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 370, Issue 25, 2014, Pages 2408-2417

  Wilson, Michael R ^a,b   Naccache, Samia N ^a,c   Samayoa, Erik ^a,c   Biagtan, Mark ^d   Bashir, Hiba ^d   Yu, Guixia ^a,c   Salamat, Shahriar M ^d   Somasekar, Sneha ^a,c   Federman, Scot ^a,c   Miller, Steve ^a,c   Sokolic, Robert ^e   Garabedian, Elizabeth ^e   Candotti, Fabio ^e   Buckley, Rebecca H ^f   Reed, Kurt D ^d   Meyer, Teresa L ^d   Seroogy, Christine M ^d   Galloway, Renee ^g   Henderson, Sheryl L ^d   Gern, James E ^d   DeRisi, Joseph L ^a   Chiu, Charles Y ^a,c   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c ABBOTT DIAGNOSTICS   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^e NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^f DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^g CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; ATOVAQUONE; CEFEPIME; CEFUROXIME; CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE; EYE DROPS; GLUCOCORTICOID; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; PEGADEMASE; PENICILLIN G; RITUXIMAB; VANCOMYCIN; VASOCONSTRICTOR AGENT;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADENOSINE DEAMINASE DEFICIENCY; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BASAL GANGLION; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; BRAIN BIOPSY; BRAIN HISTOLOGY; BRAIN INFECTION; CASE REPORT; CD3+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; COMA; CONJUNCTIVITIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; DNA SEQUENCE; DRUG MEGADOSE; EMERGENCY WARD; EPILEPTIC STATE; EYE MOVEMENT DISORDER; EYE PAIN; FATIGUE; FEVER; FRONTAL LOBE; GRANULOMATOSIS; HEADACHE; HEMISPHERE; HISTIOCYTE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYDROCEPHALUS; IDIOPATHIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA; IMMUNOGLOBULIN DEFICIENCY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LEPTOSPIROSIS; MALE; MEDICALLY INDUCED COMA; MENINGITIS; MENTAL DISEASE; MICROORGANISM DETECTION; MYALGIA; NAUSEA; NEUROLEPTOSPIROSIS; NEXT GENERATION SEQUENCING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHOTOPHOBIA; PNEUMOCYSTIS PNEUMONIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REHABILITATION CARE; SARCOIDOSIS; SEVERE COMBINED IMMUNODEFICIENCY; SIMPLE PARTIAL SEIZURE; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TIC; TREATMENT DURATION; UVEITIS; VENTRICULOSTOMY CATHETER; VOMITING; WEAKNESS; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ADENOSINE DEAMINASE; ADOLESCENT; AGAMMAGLOBULINEMIA; BIOPSY; BRAIN; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; DNA, BACTERIAL; FEVER; HEADACHE; HUMANS; LEPTOSPIRA; LEPTOSPIROSIS; MALE; MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEVERE COMBINED IMMUNODEFICIENCY;

EID: 84902602767     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa1401268     Document Type: Article

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