Staphylococcal septicemia and disseminated intravascular coagulation. Staphylococcus aureus endocarditis mimicking meningococcemia
- 1 July 1977
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of internal medicine (1960)
- Vol. 137 (7) , 844-847
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archinte.137.7.844
Abstract
Patients (2) with acute endocarditis attributable to S. aureus had a clinical syndrome similar to meningococcemia with meningitis. That fulminant S. aureus septicemia may on occasion be associated with hemorrhagic skin lesions, thrombocytopenia, coagulation abnormalities and meningitis is emphasized.This publication has 4 references indexed in Scilit:
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