Risk factors for an adverse outcome in bacterial meningitis in the tropics: A reappraisal with focus on the significance and risk of seizures

Annals of Tropical Paediatrics

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 151-159

  Akpede, George O ^a,b   Akuhwa, Randolph T ^a   Ogiji, Edward O ^a   Ambe, Jose P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MAIDUGURI   (Nigeria)

^b Otibhor Okhae Teaching Hospital   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEPHALOSPORIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CLOXACILLIN; DIAZEPAM; GENTAMICIN; PARALDEHYDE; PENICILLIN G; PHENOBARBITAL;

HEALTH RISK; MENINGITIS; MORTALITY; RISK FACTOR;

ADOLESCENT; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BODY POSTURE; CHILD; COMA; HUMAN; INFANT; INTRAMUSCULAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY; MUSCLE TONE; RISK FACTOR; SEIZURE; SHOCK; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TROPICS;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MENINGITIS, BACTERIAL; NIGERIA; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEIZURES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

EID: 0033013325     PISSN: 02724936     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02724939992473     Document Type: Article

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