A Syrian patient diagnosed with meningococcal meningitis serogroup B

Human Vaccines and Immunotherapeutics

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 2482-

  Tezer, Hasan ^a   Ozkaya Parlakay, Aslinur ^b   Kanik Yuksek, Saliha ^b   Gülhan, Belgin ^b   Güldemir, Dilek ^c  

^a GAZI UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

^b Ankara Children's Hematology Oncology Education and Research Hospital   (Turkey)

^c Public Health Institution of Turkey   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Child; Meningitis; Meningococcus; Neisseria meningitidis type b; Refugee

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CEFTRIAXONE;

ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BLOOD CULTURE; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID EXAMINATION; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DISEASE DURATION; EPIDEMIC MENINGITIS; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEMALE; FEVER; GIEMSA STAIN; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HEAD AND NECK DISEASE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LETHARGY; LEUKOCYTOSIS; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; MENINGOCOCCAL MENINGITIS TYPE B; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS SEROGROUP B; NEUTROPHIL; NONHUMAN; PARTIAL THROMBOPLASTIN TIME; PETECHIA; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; REFUGEE; RESIDENTIAL HOME; SCHOOL CHILD; SYRIAN; TURKEY (REPUBLIC); VOMITING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MENINGITIS, MENINGOCOCCAL; MICROBIOLOGY; SEPSIS;

HUMANS; MENINGITIS, MENINGOCOCCAL; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS, SEROGROUP B; SEPSIS;

EID: 84908498783     PISSN: 21645515     EISSN: 2164554X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/hv.28951     Document Type: Article

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