Meningitis (II) - Acute bacterial meningitis;Meningitis (II) - Akute bakterielle meningitis

Therapeutische Umschau

Volumn 56, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 640-645

  Leib, S L ^a   Tauber M G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; AMPICILLIN MEPHA; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEFOTAXIME; CEFTAZIDIME; CEFTRIAXONE; DEXAMETHASONE; GENTAMICIN; PENICILLIN G; RIFAMPICIN; TOBRAMYCIN; TOBRAMYCIN SULFATE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VANCOMYCIN;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BLOOD CULTURE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID EXAMINATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ERADICATION THERAPY; GRAM STAINING; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HUMAN; INFECTIOUS MONONUCLEOSIS; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; MENTAL HEALTH; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NEPHROTOXICITY; NEUROTOXICITY; REVIEW; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

EID: 0032733807     PISSN: 00405930     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1024/0040-5930.56.11.640     Document Type: Article

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