Bacterial meningitis in a rural Kenyan Hospital

East African Medical Journal

Volumn 75, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 396-401

  Honnas A ^a   Petersen, L T ^b,c  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b PO Box 250 ^*  (Netherlands)

^c St Mary's Hospital   (Kenya)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; CHILD; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; INFANT; INFECTION CONTROL; KENYA; MALARIA; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURVIVAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALS, RURAL; HUMANS; INFANT; INFECTION CONTROL; KENYA; MALARIA; MENINGITIS, BACTERIAL; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0043211190     PISSN: 0012835X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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