Tuberculous meningitis in children: Clinical features and outcome in 40 cases

Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 41-45

  Paganini, Hugo ^a   Gonzalez, Fernando ^a   Santander, Celina ^a   Casimir, Lidia ^a   Berberian, Griselda ^a   Rosanova, Maria T ^a  

^a HOSPITAL DE PEDIATRÍA PROF DR JUAN P GARRAHAN   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BCG VACCINE; CORTICOSTEROID; ISONIAZID; PREDNISONE; PYRAZINAMIDE; RIFAMPICIN; TUBERCULIN;

ARTICLE; BCG VACCINATION; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FATALITY; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; INFANT; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SEIZURE; SENSORY SYSTEM; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUBERCULOUS MENINGITIS;

EID: 0033982238     PISSN: 00365548     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00365540050164209     Document Type: Article

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