Chronic meningitis in Thailand: Clinical characteristics, laboratory data and outcome in patients with specific reference to tuberculosis and cryptococcosis

Neuroepidemiology

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 37-44

  Helbok, R ^a,b   Pongpakdee, S ^b   Yenjun, S ^b   Dent, W ^a   Beer, R ^a   Lackner, P ^a   Bunyaratvej, P ^b   Prasert, B ^b   Vejjajiva, A ^b   Schmutzhard, E ^a  

^a INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^b MAHIDOL UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

Chronic meningitis; Cryptococcal meningitis; HIV; Tuberculous meningitis

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B; ETHAMBUTOL; FLUCONAZOLE; GLUCOSE; ISONIAZID; ITRACONAZOLE; PROTEIN; PYRAZINAMIDE; RIFAMPICIN; STREPTOMYCIN;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN INFARCTION; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CHILD; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSCIOUSNESS; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; FEMALE; FUNGAL MENINGITIS; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HYDROCEPHALUS; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; LEUKOCYTE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEIZURE; THAILAND; TUBERCULOUS MENINGITIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANGIOSTRONGYLUS CANTONENSIS; ANIMALS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MENINGITIS; MENINGITIS, ASEPTIC; MENINGITIS, BACTERIAL; MENINGITIS, CRYPTOCOCCAL; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS SUIS; STRONGYLIDA INFECTIONS; THAILAND; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUBERCULOSIS, MENINGEAL;

EID: 29144506932     PISSN: 02515350     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000089236     Document Type: Article

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