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Chronic alcohol abuse affects the clinical course and outcome of community-acquired bacterial mening...

Chronic alcohol abuse affects the clinical course and outcome of community-acquired bacterial mening...

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Chronic alcohol abuse affects the clinical course and outcome of community-acquired bacterial meningitis

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Full title

Chronic alcohol abuse affects the clinical course and outcome of community-acquired bacterial meningitis

Publisher

Berlin/Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg

Journal title

European journal of clinical microbiology & infectious diseases, 2019-11, Vol.38 (11), p.2171-2176

Language

English

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Publisher

Berlin/Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg

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Scope and Contents

Contents

The aim of the study was to determine the effect of chronic alcohol abuse on the course and outcome of bacterial meningitis (BM). We analyzed records of patients with BM who were hospitalized between January 2010 and December 2017 in the largest neuroinfection center in Poland. Out of 340 analyzed patients, 45 (13.2%) were alcoholics. Compared with...

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Full title

Chronic alcohol abuse affects the clinical course and outcome of community-acquired bacterial meningitis

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TN_cdi_pubmedcentral_primary_oai_pubmedcentral_nih_gov_6800865

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_pubmedcentral_primary_oai_pubmedcentral_nih_gov_6800865

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ISSN

0934-9723

E-ISSN

1435-4373

DOI

10.1007/s10096-019-03661-5

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