Chronic meningitis

Current Neurology and Neuroscience Reports

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 429-439

  Cohen, Bruce A ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID; FLUCONAZOLE; FLUCYTOSINE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; OKT 3; STEROID; TRIMETHOPRIM; TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; BEHCET DISEASE; BORRELIA INFECTION; BRAIN VASCULITIS; BRUCELLOSIS; CANDIDIASIS; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COCCIDIOIDOMYCOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG INDUCED DISEASE; FUNGAL MENINGITIS; HISTOPLASMOSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MENINGITIS; NEUROSYPHILIS; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SARCOIDOSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; TUBERCULOUS MENINGITIS;

EID: 28244452599     PISSN: 15284042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11910-005-0030-3     Document Type: Review

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