Meningococcal meningitis among Rwandan refugees: Diagnosis, management, and outcome in a field hospital

International Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 137-142

  Heyman, Samuel N ^a   Ginosar, Yehuda ^a   Niel, Luc ^b   Amir, Jacob ^c,d   Marx, Nila ^e   Shapiro, Mervyn ^a,f   Maayan, Shlomo ^a,f  

^a HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b HÔPITAL D'INSTRUCTION DES ARMÉES ROBERT PICQUÉ   (France)

^c SCHNEIDER CHILDREN S MEDICAL CENTER OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

^d TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^e MEDICAL CORPS   (Israel)

^f HEBREW UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Agglutination; Bacterial meningitis; Diagnosis; Disaster; Epidemic; Meningitis; Neisseda meningitidis; Rwanda; Soluble antigen; Treatment

Indexed keywords

VACCINE;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIGEN ANTIBODY REACTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; EPIDEMIC; EPIDEMIC MENINGITIS; FEMALE; GRAM STAINING; HUMAN; LATEX AGGLUTINATION TEST; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; RWANDA;

EID: 0031948506     PISSN: 12019712     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1201-9712(98)90115-1     Document Type: Article

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