Risk factors for mortality in Paraguayan children with pneumococcal bacterial meningitis

Tropical Medicine and International Health

Volumn 10, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 1235-1241

  Lovera, Dolores ^a   Arbo, Antonio ^a,b  

^a Instituto de Medicina Tropical   (Paraguay)

^b HOSPITAL INFANTIL DE MÉXICO FEDERICO GÓMEZ   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Acute bacterial meningitis; Children; Mortality; Streptococcus pneumoniae

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; GLUCOSE; HEMOGLOBIN;

CHILD MORTALITY; MENINGITIS; RISK FACTOR;

ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BLOOD CELL COUNT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMA; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INFANT; LABORATORY TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NEUTROPHIL; PARAGUAY; PATHOGENESIS; PEDIATRICS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SEIZURE; SHOCK; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; SURVIVAL; TIME;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CEFOTAXIME; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMA; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MENINGITIS, PNEUMOCOCCAL; PARAGUAY; PENICILLINS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEIZURES; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

PARAGUAY; SOUTH AMERICA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 29044441230     PISSN: 13602276     EISSN: 13653156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3156.2005.01513.x     Document Type: Article

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