National 14 years survey of 171 cases nosocomial meningitis in children and comparison of two periods 1993-1998 to 1999-2006

Neuroendocrinology Letters

Volumn 28, Issue SUPPL. 2, 2007, Pages 11-14

  Rudinsky, B ^a,b   Ondrusova, A ^a,b   Kisac, P ^a,b   Sramka, M ^a,b   Beno, P ^a,b   Miklosko, J ^a,b   Freybergh, P F ^a,b   Bauer, F ^a,b   Huttova, M ^a,b  

^a St Lesley School of Nursing   (Slovakia)

^b Institute of Prenatal and perinatal Medicine   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Children; Nosocomial meningitis

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEFEPIME; MEROPENEM; METICILLIN; OXACILLIN; TEICOPLANIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BLOOD CULTURE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID CULTURE; CHILD; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; FUNGAL STRAIN; HEALTH SURVEY; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NEUROSURGERY; NOSOCOMIAL MENINGITIS; PEDIATRICS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SLOVAKIA;

EID: 37849001852     PISSN: 0172780X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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