Prognostic Factors in Children with Purulent Meningitis in Turkey

Acta Medica Okayama

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 39-44

  Kirimi, Ercan ^a   Tuncer, Oǧuz ^a   Arslan, Şükrü ^a   Ataş, Bülent ^a   Çaksen, Hüseyin ^a   Üner, Abdurrahman ^a   Faik Öner, Ahmet ^a   Odabaş, Dursun ^a  

^a YUZUNCU YIL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Prognosis; Prospective study; Purulent meningitis

Indexed keywords

CEFOTAXIME; CHLORAMPHENICOL DERIVATIVE; GLUCOSE; PENICILLIN G; PROTEIN; SULTAMICILLIN;

ADOLESCENT; ANEMIA; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONSCIOUSNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVULSION; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEMALE; FEVER; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INFECTION RATE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LABORATORY TEST; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MALNUTRITION; NEWBORN; ONSET AGE; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; SEX RATIO; SURVIVAL RATE; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; INFANT; MORTALITY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; TURKEY (REPUBLIC);

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MENINGITIS, BACTERIAL; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; TURKEY;

EID: 0042787027     PISSN: 0386300X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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