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Penicillin-resistant Neisseria meningitidis bacteraemia, Kimberley region, March 2010.
Communicable diseases intelligence quarterly report - 1 Sept 2010
Abeysuriya Shivanti D, Speers David J, Gardiner Jackie, Murray Ronan J
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A 4-year-old fully immunised male presented to a regional hospital in the West Kimberley with fever and lethargy. Blood cultures yielded serogroup B Neisseria meningitidis, resistant to benzylpenicillin (minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) 1.0 mg/L). The patient was treated with intravenous ce...
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