Risk factors for death and severe neurological sequelae in childhood bacterial meningitis in Sub-Saharan Africa

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 48, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1107-1110

  Pelkonen, Tuula ^a,e   Roine, Irmeli ^b   Monteiro, Lurdes ^c   Correia, Margarida ^a   Pitkäranta, Anne ^d   Bernardino, Luis ^a   Peltola, Heikki ^d  

^a Hospital Pediatrico David Bernardino   (Angola)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DIEGO PORTALES   (Chile)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH DR RICARDO JORGE   (Portugal)

^d HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^e Hospital for Children and Adolescents ^*  (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEFTRIAXONE; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CHLORAMPHENICOL PLUS PENICILLIN; PENICILLIN G; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANGOLA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CHILD; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSPNEA; EPIDEMIC MENINGITIS; HAEMOPHILUS MENINGITIS; HUMAN; INFANT; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PNEUMOCOCCAL MENINGITIS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SCHOOL CHILD; SEIZURE; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNDERWEIGHT;

AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; ANGOLA; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDERS; DYSPNEA; HUMANS; INFANT; LOGISTIC MODELS; MENINGITIS, BACTERIAL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RISK FACTORS; SEIZURES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 63649155582     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/597463     Document Type: Article

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