Meningitis

Pediatrics in Review

Volumn 29, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 417-430

  Mann, Keith ^a,b   Jackson, Mary Anne ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI KANSAS CITY   (United States)

^b CHILDREN S MERCY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR; AMPICILLIN; CARBAPENEM; CEFOTAXIME; CEFTRIAXONE; CEPHALOSPORIN; CORTICOSTEROID; DEXAMETHASONE; PENICILLIN G; PNEUMOCOCCUS VACCINE; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; VANCOMYCIN; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL FEATURE; FUNGAL MENINGITIS; HERPES SIMPLEX; HERPES SIMPLEX ENCEPHALITIS; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; INAPPROPRIATE VASOPRESSIN SECRETION; LISTERIOSIS; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; LYME DISEASE; MENINGITIS; MENINGOCOCCOSIS; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEWBORN INFECTION; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PNEUMOCOCCAL MENINGITIS; PROGNOSIS; SHUNT INFECTION; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; TUBERCULOUS MENINGITIS; VIRUS MENINGITIS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; DRUG COMBINATION; EPIDEMIC MENINGITIS; HEARING LOSS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CEFOTAXIME; CEFTRIAXONE; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; HEARING LOSS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; MENINGITIS; MENINGITIS, BACTERIAL; MENINGITIS, MENINGOCOCCAL; VANCOMYCIN;

EID: 59849112172     PISSN: 01919601     EISSN: 15263347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/pir.29-12-417     Document Type: Article

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