Community-acquired bacterial meningitis in adults

Practical Neurology

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 8-23

  Schut, Ewout S ^a   de Gans, Jan ^a   van de Beek, Diederik ^a  

^a ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; DEXAMETHASONE; GLUCOCORTICOID;

ADULT; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BLOOD EXAMINATION; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DRUG COMBINATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PUNCTURE; REVIEW; UNCONSCIOUSNESS;

ADULT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; DEXAMETHASONE; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HEMATOLOGIC TESTS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MENINGITIS, BACTERIAL; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; SPINAL PUNCTURE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; UNCONSCIOUSNESS;

EID: 39049160528     PISSN: 14747758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.2007.139725     Document Type: Review

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