Early clinical clues to meningococcaemia

Medical Journal of Australia

Volumn 178, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 134-137

  Yung, Allen P ^a   McDonald, Malcolm I ^b  

^a ROYAL MELBOURNE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEFTRIAXONE; PENICILLIN G;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; AGE; BACKACHE; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; FAMILY MEDICINE; FEVER; HEADACHE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MENINGOCOCCEMIA; MORTALITY; NECK PAIN; PAIN; PARENT; PATIENT REFERRAL; PETECHIA; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROGNOSIS; PURPURA; RASH; RELATIVE; REVIEW; RIGOR; SEPTICEMIA; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VOMITING; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; INFANT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MENINGOCOCCOSIS; MICROBIOLOGY; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SEPTIC SHOCK; SYSTEMIC INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE SYNDROME;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; BACK PAIN; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EXANTHEMA; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MENINGOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; NECK PAIN; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; SHOCK, SEPTIC; SYSTEMIC INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE SYNDROME; VOMITING;

EID: 0037530026     PISSN: 0025729X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2003.tb05106.x     Document Type: Review

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