Glycerol and bacterial meningitis

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 45, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1287-1289

  Sáez Llorens, Xavier ^a   McCracken Jr , George H ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE PANAMÁ   (Panama)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; CEFTRIAXONE; CHLORAMPHENICOL; DEXAMETHASONE; GLYCEROL; PENICILLIN G; PLACEBO; RIFAMPICIN; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT;

BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; MALAWI; MORBIDITY; NOTE; OTITIS MEDIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIA; ADJUVANT CHEMOTHERAPY; CHILD; DRUG COMBINATION; EPIDEMIC MENINGITIS; INFANT; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DEXAMETHASONE; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; GLYCEROL; HUMANS; INFANT; MENINGITIS, BACTERIAL; MENINGITIS, HAEMOPHILUS; MENINGITIS, MENINGOCOCCAL; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 36049005085     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/522536     Document Type: Note

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