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Reminder of important clinical lesson
CASE REPORT
A chronic alcoholic man with high fever, neck rigidity and loss of consciousness: remember the Austrian syndrome a commonly unrecognised invasive pneumococcus triad

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  • Sarah P Georgiadou Department of Medicine and Research Laboratory of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Thessaly, Larissa, Thessaly, Greece PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Efstratios Manoulakas Department of Medicine and Research Laboratory of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Thessaly, Larissa, Thessaly, Greece PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Konstantinos P Makaritsis Department of Medicine and Research Laboratory of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Thessaly, Larissa, Thessaly, Greece PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • George N Dalekos Department of Medicine and Research Laboratory of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Thessaly, Larissa, Thessaly, Greece PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  1. Correspondence to Professor George N Dalekos, dalekos{at}med.uth.gr
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Georgiadou SP, Manoulakas E, Makaritsis KP, et al
A chronic alcoholic man with high fever, neck rigidity and loss of consciousness: remember the Austrian syndrome a commonly unrecognised invasive pneumococcus triad
Case Reports 2018;2018:bcr-2018-225010.

Publication history

  • Accepted May 9, 2018
  • First published May 30, 2018.
Online issue publication 
August 07, 2018

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