Bacterial meningitis

Primary Care Update for Ob/Gyns

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 49-54

  Bartfield, Alison A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; CEPHALOSPORIN;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; CHEMOPROPHYLAXIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HUMAN; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; UNITED STATES; VACCINATION;

EID: 0034603323     PISSN: 1068607X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1068-607X(00)00020-2     Document Type: Article

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