The effect of adjuvant steroid treatment on serial cerebrospinal fluid changes in tuberculous meningitis

Annals of Tropical Paediatrics

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 299-305

  Schoeman, J F ^a   Elshof, J W M ^a   Laubscher, J A ^a   Janse van Rensburg, A ^a   Donald, P R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STELLENBOSCH   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; ETHIONAMIDE; GLOBULIN; GLUCOSE; ISONIAZID; PREDNISOLONE; PROTEIN; PYRAZINAMIDE; RIFAMPICIN; STEROID;

DRUG PRESCRIBING; MENINGITIS; TUBERCULOSIS;

ADJUVANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID CYTOLOGY; CHILD; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG BIOAVAILABILITY; DRUG MECHANISM; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MORTALITY; PROTEIN CEREBROSPINAL FLUID LEVEL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TUBERCULOUS MENINGITIS;

ADENYLATE KINASE; ANTITUBERCULAR AGENTS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID PROTEINS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DRUG INTERACTIONS; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FEMALE; GLOBULINS; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; GLUCOSE; HUMANS; INFANT; LACTIC ACID; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MALE; NEUTROPHILS; PREDNISONE; RIFAMPIN; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TUBERCULOSIS, MENINGEAL;

EID: 0035189669     PISSN: 02724936     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07430170120093481     Document Type: Article

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