Acute bacterial meningitis in children admitted to the Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital, Blantyre, Malawi in 1996-97

Tropical Medicine and International Health

Volumn 3, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 610-618

  Molyneux, Elizabeth ^a   AmandaWalsh, ^a   Phiri, Amos ^a   Molyneux, Malcolm ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MALAWI   (Malawi)

Author keywords

Bacterial meningitis; Children; Malawi

Indexed keywords

CHLORAMPHENICOL; PENICILLIN G;

BACTERIAL DISEASE; CHILD HEALTH; DISEASE TREATMENT;

ADOLESCENT; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; CHILD; COMA; FEVER; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALAWI; MORTALITY; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NEWBORN; RELAPSE; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; SALMONELLOSIS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

BLANTYRE; MALAWI;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); HAEMOPHILUS; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE SEROTYPE B; NEGIBACTERIA; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; TYPHIMURIUM;

EID: 0031822138     PISSN: 13602276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3156.1998.00278.x     Document Type: Article

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