Real-time PCR for Strongyloides stercoralis-associated meningitis

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 84, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 197-199

  Nadir, Eyal ^a,c   Grossman, Tamar ^b   Ciobotaro, Pnina ^a   Attali, Malka ^a   Barkan, Daniel ^a,c   Bardenstein, Rita ^a   Zimhony, Oren ^a  

^a KAPLAN MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Israel)

^c HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Immunocompromised host; Meningitis; PCR; Strongyloides stercoralis

Indexed keywords

ALBENDAZOLE; AMIKACIN; AMPICILLIN; ANTIRETROVIRUS AGENT; CEFTRIAXONE; CORTICOSTEROID; IVERMECTIN; MEROPENEM; ANTHELMINTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; BLOOD CULTURE; CASE REPORT; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; COMATOSE PATIENT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFUSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DRUG PULSE THERAPY; DUODENUM BIOPSY; DUODENUM ULCER; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTION; ESOPHAGOGASTRODUODENOSCOPY; ETHIOPIA; EXTENDED SPECTRUM BETA LACTAMASE PRODUCING ESCHERICHIA COLI; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FEVER; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTED PATIENT; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMIGRANT; IMMUNOCOMPROMIZED PATIENT; KIDNEY ABSCESS; LARVA; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS NEPHRITIS; MALE; PARASITIC MENINGITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; SEIZURE; STRONGYLOIDES STERCORALIS; STRONGYLOIDIASIS; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; VERY ELDERLY; VOMITING; ANIMAL; FATALITY; GENETICS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT; MENINGITIS; MIDDLE AGED; PARASITE LOAD; PARASITOLOGY; PROCEDURES; RISK FACTOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMALS; ANTHELMINTICS; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; MALE; MENINGITIS; MIDDLE AGED; PARASITE LOAD; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RISK FACTORS; STRONGYLOIDES STERCORALIS; STRONGYLOIDIASIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84958660017     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: 18790070     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2015.11.015     Document Type: Article

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