Culture-Negative Pericarditis Caused by Neisseria meningitidis Serogroup C
- 1 February 2004
- journal article
- Published by American Society for Microbiology in Journal of Clinical Microbiology
- Vol. 42 (2), 923-4
- https://doi.org/10.1128/jcm.42.2.923-924.2004
Abstract
We describe a case of primary purulent culture-negative pericarditis caused by Neisseria meningitidis serogroup C occurring in an 8-month-old previously healthy boy, which was detected in pericardial fluid by broad-spectrum PCR amplification.Keywords
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