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Adult pneumococcal meningitis presenting with normocellular cerebrospinal fluid: two case reports

INTRODUCTION: Normocellular bacterial meningitis is rarely observed in adult patients. We here report two cases of adult patients with pneumococcal meningitis with a normal cerebrospinal fluid leukocyte count and review eight other cases in the literature. CASE PRESENTATION: Case 1 was a 34-year-old...

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Autores principales: Suzuki, Hiromichi, Tokuda, Yasuharu, Kurihara, Yoko, Suzuki, Masatsune, Nakamura, Hidenori
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3917417/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24378083
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-7-294