Listeria monocytogenes infection associated with alemtuzumab – - a case for better preventive strategies

BACKGROUND: The mortality of septicaemia, meningitis and encephalitis caused by Listeria monocytogenes is 20–40%. Twenty-one cases of invasive listeriosis associated with alemtuzumab, including at least 16 in patients with multiple sclerosis, have been published or reported to the World Health Organ...

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Autores principales: Holmøy, Trygve, von der Lippe, Hedda, Leegaard, Truls Michael
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5381036/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28376817
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12883-017-0848-8

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