Long term sequelae of childhood acute bacterial meningitis in a developing country: A study from the Sudan

Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 1991, Pages 175-182

  Salih, Mustafa M Abdalla ^a   Khaleefa, Omer Haroon ^a   Bushara, Mohamed ^b   Taha, Zubair B ^a   Musa, Zeinab A ^c   Kamil, Izzeldin ^a   Hofvander, Yngve ^d   Olcén, Per ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KHARTOUM   (Sudan)

^b Khartoum Teaching Hospital   (Sudan)

^c Department of ENT Khartoum Teaching Hospital ^*  (Sudan)

^d UPPSALA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^e ÖREBRO MEDICAL CENTRE HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLYNOMIAL APPROXIMATION; SET THEORY;

AVERAGE HEIGHT; COUNTING LINEAR EXTENSIONS; LINEAR EXTENSIONS; P-COMPLETE; PARTIALLY ORDERED SET; POLYNOMIAL-TIME; RATIONAL POLYHEDRONS;

COMPUTATION THEORY;

CHLORAMPHENICOL; PENICILLIN G;

ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HAEMOPHILUS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; MENINGITIS; NEISSERIA; NONHUMAN; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STREPTOCOCCUS; VACCINATION;

ACUTE DISEASE; DEAFNESS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEMIPLEGIA; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE TESTS; MALE; MENINGITIS; MENINGITIS, HAEMOPHILUS; MENINGITIS, MENINGOCOCCAL; MENINGITIS, PNEUMOCOCCAL; MOTOR NEURONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PSYCHOMETRICS; SUDAN; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0025909280     PISSN: 00365548     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/00365549109023397     Document Type: Article

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