ASSOCIATION BETWEEN TUMOUR NECROSIS FACTOR IN SERUM AND FATAL OUTCOME IN PATIENTS WITH MENINGOCOCCAL DISEASE

The Lancet

Volumn 329, Issue 8529, 1987, Pages 355-357

  Waage, A ^a   Halstensen, A ^b   Espevik, T ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR;

BLOOD AND HEMOPOIETIC SYSTEM; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CYTOTOXICITY; DIAGNOSIS; ETIOLOGY; HUMAN; MENINGITIS; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NERVOUS SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPTICEMIA; SERUM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; GLYCOPROTEINS; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; MENINGITIS, MENINGOCOCCAL; MENINGOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; MIDDLE AGE; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR;

EID: 0023094408     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(87)91728-4     Document Type: Article

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