Think before you drink: Fatal case of meningitis in an infant

• Main Authors: T P Vigneshwaran (Author), A R Mullai Baalaaji (Author), S Ashok Kumar (Author), Ashwath Duraiswamy (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications, 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Salmonella is a common cause of community-acquired gastrointestinal infection. Serious life-threatening infection such as meningitis is a rare occurrence. Both acute complications and long-term neurological sequelae can occur in infants with Salmonella meningitis, in whom mortality rates are high. T...