Relation of Concentrations of Bacteria and Bacterial Antigen in Cerebrospinal Fluid to Prognosis in Patients with Bacterial Meningitis

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 296, Issue 8, 1977, Pages 433-435

  Feldman, William E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; PENICILLIN G;

HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; IN VITRO STUDY; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENINGITIS; MICROORGANISM; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; PREVENTION; STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; THERAPY;

AGE FACTORS; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIA; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HUMAN; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MALE; MENINGITIS; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; PROGNOSIS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 0017336334     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM197702242960806     Document Type: Article

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