Clinical profile of group A meningococcal outbreak in Delhi

Indian Pediatrics

Volumn 46, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 794-796

  Jhamb, Urmila ^a   Chawla, V ^a   Khanna, S ^a  

^a MAULANA AZAD MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

Author keywords

India; Meningitis; Meningococcemia; Neisseria; Outbreak

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMOXICILLIN; AMPICILLIN PLUS PENICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEFOTAXIME; CEFTRIAXONE; CEFUROXIME; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLOXACILLIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ERYTHROMYCIN; IMIPENEM; MEROPENEM; NETILMICIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTHRITIS; ARTICLE; BLOOD CULTURE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID CULTURE; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIARRHEA; EPIDEMIC; EPIDEMIC MENINGITIS; FEMALE; FEVER; FULMINATING PURPURA; GANGRENE; HEADACHE; HEPATOMEGALY; HUMAN; INDIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENINGOCOCCEMIA; MENINGOCOCCOSIS; MORTALITY; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RASH; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; SEIZURE; SHOCK; SORE THROAT; SPRING; SYMPTOM; VOMITING; WINTER;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTEREMIA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIA; INFANT; MALE; MENINGITIS, MENINGOCOCCAL; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS, SEROGROUP A; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 70349605195     PISSN: 00196061     EISSN: 00196061     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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