No Evidence of Viral Coinfection in Cerebrospinal Fluid From Patients With Community-Acquired Bacterial Meningitis
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No evidence of viral coinfection in cerebrospinal fluid from patients with community-acquired bacterial meningitis.
TO THE EDITOR—Bacterial meningitis is a severe disease with substantial mortality and morbidity despite the availability of effective antimicrobial agents and adjunctive therapies [1, 2]. Recently, a study involving adults with community-acquired bacterial meningitis in Malawi showed that coinfection with Epstein Barr Virus (EBV) occurred in 79 of 149 bacterial meningitis patients (53%) and tha...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Infectious Diseases
سال: 2013
ISSN: 0022-1899,1537-6613
DOI: 10.1093/infdis/jit140