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Case Reports
. 1990 May;83(5):567-70.
doi: 10.1097/00007611-199005000-00023.

Candidal meningitis following bacterial meningitis

M S Gelfand  1 , Z A McGee, A B Kaiser, F P Tally, J Moses
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Case Reports

Candidal meningitis following bacterial meningitis

M S Gelfand et al. South Med J. 1990 May.

Abstract

Patients with bacterial meningitis and posttraumatic and/or postsurgical access to the CSF are at risk for superinfection with Candida species. Patients who are not improving on appropriate antimicrobial chemotherapy for bacterial meningitis or are deteriorating after initial improvement should have a CSF reexamination for Candida superinfection.

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