Meningitis is a common cause of convulsive status epilepticus with fever

Archives of Disease in Childhood

Volumn 90, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 66-69

  Chin, R F M ^a,b   Neville, B G R ^b   Scott, R C ^b  

^a Wolfson Centre   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPILEPTIC STATE; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFANT; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; MALE; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MENINGITIS, MENINGOCOCCAL; MENINGITIS, PNEUMOCOCCAL; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STATUS EPILEPTICUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 11144240608     PISSN: 00039888     EISSN: 14682044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/adc.2003.038844     Document Type: Article

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