Burden of neuroinfectious diseases on the neurology service in a tertiary care center

Neurology

Volumn 71, Issue 15, 2008, Pages 1160-1166

  Tan, K ^a   Patel, S ^a   Gandhi, N ^a   Chow, F ^a   Rumbaugh, J ^a   Nath, A ^a,b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b 509 Pathology ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; ANTIPARASITIC AGENT; ANTIVIRUS AGENT; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; STEROID; TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTIMICROBIAL THERAPY; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLOSIS; BACKACHE; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BRAIN ABSCESS; BRAIN STEM TUMOR; CANDIDIASIS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM INFECTION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM TUBERCULOSIS; CHILD; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSULTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; DELIRIUM; DEMENTIA; DIABETES MELLITUS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPIDURAL ABSCESS; FEMALE; FEVER; HEADACHE; HERPES ZOSTER; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INFANT; INTRACRANIAL TUBERCULOMA; LENGTH OF STAY; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MENINGITIS; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; MYCOSIS; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NEUROSYPHILIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRION DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; SEIZURE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; STEROID THERAPY; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; STROKE; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; TOXOPLASMOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VIRUS MENINGITIS; ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ENCEPHALITIS; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROLOGY; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; STATISTICS; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTERS; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AIDS DEMENTIA COMPLEX; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; ENCEPHALITIS; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; LONG-TERM CARE; MALE; MENINGITIS; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOSES; NEUROLOGY; NEUROSYPHILIS; OUTPATIENT CLINICS, HOSPITAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 55249100490     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: 1526632X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/01.wnl.0000327526.71683.b7     Document Type: Article

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