Culture-proven bacterial meningitis in elderly patients in southern Taiwan: Clinical characteristics and prognostic factors

Acta Neurologica Taiwanica

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 84-91

  Chang, Chia Chen ^a   Lu, Chen Hsien ^a   Huang, Chi Ren ^a   Chuang, Yao Chung ^a   Tsai, Nai Wen ^a   Chen, Shu Fang ^a   Chang, Hsueh Wen ^b   Chang, Wen Neng ^a  

^a CHANG GUNG MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Klebsiella pneumoniae; Meningitis; Old aged adults; Postneurosurgical state; Staphylococcus aureus

Indexed keywords

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ADULT; AGED; AGING; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENTEROBACTER; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LIVER DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; SEPTIC SHOCK; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; VACCINATION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENINGITIS, BACTERIAL; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TAIWAN;

EID: 33745954575     PISSN: 10196099     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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