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Patricia L Shewmaker1, Robert E Gertz, Clara Y Kim, Sietske de Fijter, Mary DiOrio, Matthew R Moore, Bernard W Beall.
Abstract
Two women in labor received intrapartum spinal anesthesia from the same anesthesiologist approximately 1 h apart. Within 15 h, both patients developed Streptococcus salivarius meningitis and one patient died. Blood and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) samples from both patients and tongue swab specimens from the anesthesiologist yielded isolates of an indistinguishable S. salivarius strain.Entities:
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Year: 2010 PMID: 20504987 PMCID: PMC2897516 DOI: 10.1128/JCM.00426-10
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Clin Microbiol ISSN: 0095-1137 Impact factor: 5.948