Bacterial profile and clinical outcome of childhood meningitis in rural Yemen: A 2-year hospital-based study

Journal of Infection

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 228-234

  Al Khorasani, Ahmad ^a   Banajeh, Salem ^a  

^a SANA A UNIVERSITY   (Yemen)

Author keywords

Antibiotic resistance; Bacterial etiology; Childhood meningitis; Rural Yemen

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; CEFOTAXIME; CHLORAMPHENICOL; DEXAMETHASONE; GENTAMICIN; MANNITOL; PENICILLIN G;

ADOLESCENT; AGE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CEREBRAL PALSY; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID CULTURE; CHILD; CHILD CARE; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; EPILEPSY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; RURAL AREA; RURAL HEALTH CARE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; SURVIVAL RATE; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; YEMEN;

ADOLESCENT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MENINGITIS, BACTERIAL; MENINGITIS, HAEMOPHILUS; MENINGITIS, MENINGOCOCCAL; MENINGITIS, PNEUMOCOCCAL; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; RURAL POPULATION; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; SURVIVAL RATE; YEMEN;

EID: 33748701446     PISSN: 01634453     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jinf.2005.12.004     Document Type: Article

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