Clinical presentation and prognostic factors of Streptococcus pneumoniae meningitis according to the focus of infection

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 5, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Østergaard, Christian ^a,b   Konradsen, Helle Bossen ^a   Samuelsson, Susanne ^a  

^a STATENS SERUM INSTITUT   (Denmark)

^b GENTOFTE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; PROTEIN;

AGE; ARTICLE; ASSISTED VENTILATION; BACK MUSCLE; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; CANCER; CAUSE OF DEATH; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONVULSION; DENMARK; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DRUG FATALITY; EAR INFECTION; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEVER; FISHER EXACT TEST; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEADACHE; HEARING LOSS; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LOBAR PNEUMONIA; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; LUNG INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RECORD; MENTAL HEALTH; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MUSCLE RIGIDITY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NONHUMAN; PROGNOSIS; PROTEIN CEREBROSPINAL FLUID LEVEL; REGISTRATION; SINUSITIS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; SURVIVAL; SYSTEMIC DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; FEMALE; INFANT; LUNG DISEASE; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; OTITIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PNEUMOCOCCAL MENINGITIS; PUNCTURE; SEIZURE; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; CHILD; DENMARK; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HUMANS; INFANT; LOGISTIC MODELS; LUNG DISEASES; MALE; MENINGITIS, PNEUMOCOCCAL; MIDDLE AGED; OTITIS; PROGNOSIS; SEIZURES; SPINAL PUNCTURE;

EID: 27744593376     PISSN: 14712334     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-5-93     Document Type: Article

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