Corticosteroids for bacterial meningitis in adults in sub-Saharan Africa

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 357, Issue 24, 2007, Pages 2441-2450

  Scarborough, Matthew ^a,c,e,g   Gordon, Stephen B ^a,b,e   Whitty, Christopher J M ^a,f   French, Neil ^a,b,e   Njalale, Yasin ^a   Chitani, Alex ^a   Peto, Timothy E A ^d   Lalloo, David G ^e   Zijlstra, Eduard E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MALAWI   (Malawi)

^b MALAWI LIVERPOOL WELLCOME TRUST CLINICAL RESEARCH PROGRAMME   (Malawi)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^e LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

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

^g JOHN RADCLIFFE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C TRI; CEFTRIAXONE; DEXACIP; DEXAMETHASONE; PLACEBO; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADJUVANT THERAPY; ADULT; AFRICA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; FEMALE; FEVER; FOLLOW UP; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; JAUNDICE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RASH; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT;

EID: 37249060680     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa065711     Document Type: Article

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