Clinical features, complications, and outcome in adults with pneumococcal meningitis: A prospective case series

Lancet Neurology

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 123-129

  Weisfelt, Martijn ^a   Van De Beek, Diederik ^a   Spanjaard, Lodewijk ^a   Reitsma, Johannes B ^a   De Gans, Jan ^a  

^a ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; CEPHALOSPORIN; DEXAMETHASONE; HYDROCORTISONE; PENICILLIN G; PREDNISOLONE; PREDNISONE; STEROID;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BRAIN ABSCESS; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN INFARCTION; CAUSE OF DEATH; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID CULTURE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; ENCEPHALITIS; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEMALE; GLASGOW OUTCOME SCALE; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATION; OTITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SINUSITIS; SYSTEMIC DISEASE;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENINGITIS, PNEUMOCOCCAL; MIDDLE AGED; MORBIDITY; PREVALENCE; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 30844443240     PISSN: 14744422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1474-4422(05)70288-X     Document Type: Article

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