Optimization of a diagnostic procedure for children with preliminary diagnosis of "meningitis"

Journal of Pediatric Infectious Diseases

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 57-63

  Steinberg, Aleksandra V ^a   Korzhenevich, Vyacheslav I ^a   Mihailova, Elena V ^a  

^a SARATOV STATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Children; Coxsackieviruses; Echoviruses; Enterovirus; Meningitis

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; LACTOFERRIN; PROCALCITONIN;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADOLESCENT; ANOREXIA; ARTICLE; ASEPTIC MENINGITIS; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CHILD; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVULSION; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; EPIDEMIC MENINGITIS; FEVER; HEADACHE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; INFANT; INFLAMMATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENINGITIS; NYSTAGMUS; ONSET AGE; PLEOCYTOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; SCHOOL CHILD; SOMNOLENCE; STRABISMUS; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE; VIRUS MENINGITIS; WEAKNESS;

EID: 77949411954     PISSN: 13057707     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/JPI-2010-0225     Document Type: Article

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