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Meningitis
Research from M. Jovanovic and co-authors yields new data on meningitis
June 3rd, 2008
"A 72-year-old woman was hospitalized for Streptococcus equi subsp. zooepidemicus meningitis," investigators in Serbia report. "The same organism was cultured from her two horses. She denied contact with horses, but had a practice of consuming unpasteurized milk from a cow," wrote M. Jovanovic and colleagues. The researchers concluded: "The cow was in the same stable as the horses, and the ill woman's son milked the cow." Jovanovic and colleagues published their study in the Journal of Medical Microbiology (Streptococcus equi subsp zooepidemicus meningitis. Journal of Medical Microbiology, 2008;57(3):373-375). ...
Source: TB & Outbreaks Week (2008-06-03)
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