A case of fatal acute bacterial meningoencephalitis with extremely high cerebrospinal fluid white blood cell count

Acute bacterial meningoencephalitis is still prevalent despite the widespread vaccination and still fatal despite the advances in antimicrobial therapy. Identifying patients at risk, lowering the threshold of clinical diagnosis and early treatment of such a curable disease will save patients' l...

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Autores principales: AlHodaif, Hend, AlOtaibi, Sultan, BinSailh, Salih, Almuntashri, Makki, AlOtaibi, Naser, Khatri, Ismail A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2023
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10090937/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37064733
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.7178
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author AlHodaif, Hend
AlOtaibi, Sultan
BinSailh, Salih
Almuntashri, Makki
AlOtaibi, Naser
Khatri, Ismail A.
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spelling pubmed-100909372023-04-13 A case of fatal acute bacterial meningoencephalitis with extremely high cerebrospinal fluid white blood cell count AlHodaif, Hend AlOtaibi, Sultan BinSailh, Salih Almuntashri, Makki AlOtaibi, Naser Khatri, Ismail A. Clin Case Rep Case Report Acute bacterial meningoencephalitis is still prevalent despite the widespread vaccination and still fatal despite the advances in antimicrobial therapy. Identifying patients at risk, lowering the threshold of clinical diagnosis and early treatment of such a curable disease will save patients' lives. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2023-04-12 /pmc/articles/PMC10090937/ /pubmed/37064733 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.7178 Text en © 2023 The Authors. Clinical Case Reports published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited and is not used for commercial purposes.
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AlHodaif, Hend
AlOtaibi, Sultan
BinSailh, Salih
Almuntashri, Makki
AlOtaibi, Naser
Khatri, Ismail A.
A case of fatal acute bacterial meningoencephalitis with extremely high cerebrospinal fluid white blood cell count
title A case of fatal acute bacterial meningoencephalitis with extremely high cerebrospinal fluid white blood cell count
title_full A case of fatal acute bacterial meningoencephalitis with extremely high cerebrospinal fluid white blood cell count
title_fullStr A case of fatal acute bacterial meningoencephalitis with extremely high cerebrospinal fluid white blood cell count
title_full_unstemmed A case of fatal acute bacterial meningoencephalitis with extremely high cerebrospinal fluid white blood cell count
title_short A case of fatal acute bacterial meningoencephalitis with extremely high cerebrospinal fluid white blood cell count
title_sort case of fatal acute bacterial meningoencephalitis with extremely high cerebrospinal fluid white blood cell count
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10090937/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37064733
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.7178
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