Editorial: 100 Years of epidemic meningitis in West Africa - Has anything changed?

Tropical Medicine and International Health

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 773-780

  Greenwood, Brian ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Africa; Centenary; Epidemic meningitis; History; Meningococcus

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEFTRIAXONE; CHLORAMPHENICOL; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PENICILLIN G; SULFONAMIDE;

AFRICA; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; EDITORIAL; EPIDEMIC MENINGITIS; HUMAN; MENINGOCOCCOSIS; MORTALITY; NIGERIA; NONHUMAN; STREPTOCOCCUS GROUP A; SYMPTOM; TROPICAL MEDICINE;

AFRICA, WESTERN; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; MENINGITIS, MENINGOCOCCAL; MENINGOCOCCAL VACCINES; PERIODICITY; SEASONS;

EID: 33744936061     PISSN: 13602276     EISSN: 13653156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3156.2006.01639.x     Document Type: Editorial

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