Childhood bacterial meningitis in Pondicherry, South India

Indian Journal of Pediatrics

Volumn 68, Issue 9, 2001, Pages 839-841

  Sahai, Sashi ^a   Mahadevan, S ^a   Srinivasan, S ^a   Kanungo, R ^a  

^a JAWAHARLAL INSTITUTE OF POSTGRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

Bacterial meningitis; Determinants of outcome; Organisms

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CHILD; FEMALE; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INDIA; INFANT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; MORTALITY; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SALMONELLA; SALMONELLOSIS; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HUMANS; INDIA; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MENINGITIS, BACTERIAL; MENINGITIS, HAEMOPHILUS; SALMONELLA; SALMONELLA INFECTIONS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 0035463303     PISSN: 00195456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02762107     Document Type: Article

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