Indications for the immunological evaluation of patients with meningitis

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 189-194

  Overturf, Gary D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C1; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C3; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C5; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C9; PROPERDIN;

ADULT; AGAMMAGLOBULINEMIA; ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; ARTICLE; ASPLENIA; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; COMORBIDITY; COMPLEMENT DEFICIENCY; CONGENITAL DISORDER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EVALUATION; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; IMMUNE STATUS; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT INFECTION; RISK FACTOR; SEPSIS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; TREATMENT INDICATION;

COMPLEMENT SYSTEM PROTEINS; HAEMOPHILUS INFECTIONS; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; IMMUNITY; IMMUNOLOGIC DEFICIENCY SYNDROMES; LISTERIA INFECTIONS; MENINGITIS, BACTERIAL; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; PROPERDIN; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 0037439378     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/345527     Document Type: Article

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