Exogenous re-infection by a novel Streptococcus pneumoniae serotype 14 as a cause of recurrent meningitis in a child from The Gambia

We report a case of an infant who experienced exogenous re-infection of Streptococcus pneumoniae serotype 14 as a cause of recurrent meningitis after apparently successful antibiotic treatment with ceftriaxone. eBURST analysis revealed that isolates from the two episodes of meningitis belonged to hy...

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Autores principales: Antonio, Martin, Oluwalana, Claire, Secka, Ousman, Corrah, Tumani, Howie, Stephen, Adegbola, Richard A
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2633280/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19154571
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1476-0711-8-3

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2633280/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19154571
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1476-0711-8-3

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