ANDISCRIMINATED ASEPTIC MENINGITIS CASE BETWEEN RICKETTSIA AND LEPTOSPIRAL MENINGITIS
Davut Özdemir 1 * , İrfan Sencan 2, Mustafa Yıldırım 1, Ertuğrul Güçlü 1, Tevfik Yavuz 3, Oğuz Karabay 4
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1 Düzce University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Düzce, Turkey2 Diskapi Yildirim Beyazit Training and Research Hospital, Department of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Ankara, Turkey3 Düzce University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Microbiology and Clinical Microbiology, Düzce, Turkey4 Abant Izzet Baysal University Izzet Baysal Medical School, Department of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases4, Bolu, Turkey* Corresponding Author

Abstract

Rickettsial meningitis and leptospiral meningitis should be included in the differential diagnosis of aseptic meningitis in patients exposed to endemic areas. In this report we describe a cas

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EUR J GEN MED, 2008, Volume 5, Issue 1, 51-53

https://doi.org/10.29333/ejgm/82576

Publication date: 15 Jan 2008

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