Bacterial meningitis in Malawian adults: Pneumococcal disease is common, severe, and seasonal

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 53-57

  Gordon, Stephen B ^a,b   Walsh, Amanda L ^a,b   Chaponda, Mas ^a   Gordon, Melita A ^a   Soko, Douglas ^a   Mbwvinji, Milton ^a,b   Molyneux, Malcolm E ^a,b   Read, Robert C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MALAWI   (Malawi)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CLINICAL TRIAL; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS PREVALENCE; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALAWI; MORTALITY; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL VARIATION; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

ADULT; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALAWI; MALE; MENINGITIS, BACTERIAL; MENINGITIS, MENINGOCOCCAL; MENINGITIS, PNEUMOCOCCAL; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEASONS;

EID: 0034455540     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/313910     Document Type: Article

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