Acute bacterial meningitis in adults: Predictors of outcome

Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 348-354

  Dzupova, Olga ^a   Rozsypal, Hanus ^b   Prochazka, Bohumir ^c   Benes, Jiri ^a  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BULOVKA   (Czech Republic)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; CEFOTAXIME; CEFTRIAXONE; DEXAMETHASONE; GLUCOSE; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BRAIN DISEASE; COMA; COMORBIDITY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; LOW DRUG DOSE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MORTALITY; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; PARESIS; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROTEIN CEREBROSPINAL FLUID LEVEL; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; VEGETATIVE STAGE; VESTIBULAR DISORDER; ACUTE DISEASE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CZECH REPUBLIC; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTOR;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BLOOD GLUCOSE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID PROTEINS; COMA; COMORBIDITY; CZECH REPUBLIC; FEMALE; GLUCOSE; HUMANS; HYPOTENSION; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MENINGITIS, BACTERIAL; MIDDLE AGED; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTORS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 67649566111     PISSN: 00365548     EISSN: 16511980     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00365540902849391     Document Type: Article

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