A pregnant woman with chronic meningococcaemia from Neisseria meningitidis with lpxl1-mutations

The Lancet

Volumn 384, Issue 9957, 2014, Pages 1900-

  Persa, Oana Diana ^a   Jazmati, Nathalie ^a   Robinson, Nirmal ^a,b   Wolke, Martina ^a   Kremer, Kim ^a   Schweer, Katharina ^a   Plum, Georg ^a   Schlaak, Max ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEFTRIAXONE; ACYLTRANSFERASE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; LPXL PROTEIN, BACTERIA;

ADULT; ARTHRALGIA; BLOOD CULTURE; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; GENE; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; JOINT SWELLING; LPXL1 GENE; MACULOPAPULAR RASH; MENINGOCOCCEMIA; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NOTE; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT RESPONSE; BACTEREMIA; CHRONIC DISEASE; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; GENETICS; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MENINGOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; MUTATION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACYLTRANSFERASES; ADULT; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CEFTRIAXONE; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MENINGOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; MUTATION; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, FIRST; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84925003354     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: 1474547X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(14)61645-7     Document Type: Article

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