Community-acquired bacterial meningitis in elderly patients: Experience over 30 years

Medicine

Volumn 88, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 115-119

  Cabellos, Carmen ^a   Verdaguer, Ricard ^a   Olmo, Montse ^a   Ferñ Frndez Sab̃, Nuria ^a   Cisnal, Maria ^a   Ariza, Javier ^a   Gudiol, Francesc ^a   Viladrich, Pedro F ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI DE BELLVITGE   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; CEFOTAXIME; CEFTRIAXONE; DEXAMETHASONE; GENTAMICIN; MANNITOL; PHENYTOIN; VANCOMYCIN;

AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; CAPNOCYTOPHAGA; CAPNOCYTOPHAGA CANIMORSUS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID FISTULA; COMMUNITY LIVING; DIABETES MELLITUS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HUMAN; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; LISTERIOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NEOPLASM; OTITIS; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SEIZURE; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; SPAIN; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; AGE; COMA; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; FEVER; FISTULA; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEART FAILURE; HYPERNATREMIA; KIDNEY FAILURE; MICROBIOLOGY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SHOCK;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMA; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; FEVER; FISTULA; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; HYPERNATREMIA; KIDNEY FAILURE; MALE; MENINGITIS, BACTERIAL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOPLASMS; OTITIS; PNEUMONIA; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEIZURES; SHOCK; SPAIN;

EID: 63249089769     PISSN: 00257974     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MD.0b013e31819d50ef     Document Type: Article

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