Meningitis registry of hospitalized cases in children: Epidemiological patterns of acute bacterial meningitis throughout a 32-year period

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 7, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Theodoridou, Maria N ^a   Vasilopoulou, Vasiliki A ^a   Atsali, Erato E ^a   Pangalis, Anastasia M ^b   Mostrou, Glyceria J ^a   Syriopoulou, Vassiliki P ^a   Hadjichristodoulou, Christos S ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b AGHIA SOPHIA CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE VACCINE; HAEMOPHILUS VACCINE;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; CHILD; CHILD CARE; CHILD HOSPITALIZATION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE REGISTRY; FEMALE; GREECE; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE TYPE B; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFECTION RISK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; RISK FACTOR; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; VACCINATION; ACUTE DISEASE; EPIDEMIC MENINGITIS; HOSPITALIZATION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; REGISTER; STATISTICS; TIME;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; GREECE; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE TYPE B; HAEMOPHILUS VACCINES; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; MALE; MENINGITIS, BACTERIAL; MENINGITIS, HAEMOPHILUS; MENINGITIS, MENINGOCOCCAL; MENINGITIS, PNEUMOCOCCAL; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; REGISTRIES; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 35448970940     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-7-101     Document Type: Article

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