Dexamethasone adjunctive therapy for bacterial meningitis in children: A retrospective study in Brazil

Annals of Tropical Paediatrics

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 193-198

  Macaluso, Anna ^a,b   Pivetta, Silvia ^a,b   Maggi, Ruben Schindler ^a   Tamburlini, Giorgio ^b   Cattaneo, Adriano ^b  

^a INSTITUTO DE MEDICINA INTEGRAL PROF FERNANDO FIGUEIRA   (Brazil)

^b INSTITUTE FOR MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH IRCCS BURLO GAROFOLO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CHLORAMPHENICOL; DEXAMETHASONE; PENICILLIN G; STEROID;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BRAZIL; CHILD; CLINICAL TRIAL; FATALITY; FEMALE; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HUMAN; INFANT; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NONHUMAN; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIA;

EID: 0029816536     PISSN: 02724936     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02724936.1996.11747825     Document Type: Article

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