Acute meningococcal meningitis: Analysis of features of the disease according to the age of 255 patients

Journal of Infection

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 227-235

  Andersen, J ^a,b   Backer, V ^b   Voldsgaard, P ^b   Skinhoj P ^b   Wandall, J H ^b  

^a STATENS SERUM INSTITUT   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; PROTEIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BLOOD CLOTTING; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONVULSION; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE COURSE; EPIDEMIC MENINGITIS; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMAN; INFANT; INFLAMMATION; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; LEUKOCYTOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MORTALITY; NECK; PETECHIA; PROGNOSIS; PROTEIN CEREBROSPINAL FLUID LEVEL; RIGIDITY; SEPTICEMIA; SEX DIFFERENCE; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

EID: 0030844312     PISSN: 01634453     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0163-4453(97)94255-9     Document Type: Article

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