Adult meningitis in a setting of high HIV and TB prevalence: Findings from 4961 suspected cases

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Jarvis, Joseph N ^a,b,c   Meintjes, Graeme ^a,b   Williams, Anthony ^a   Brown, Yolande ^a   Crede, Tom ^a   Harrison, Thomas S ^c  

^a GF Jooste Hospital   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^c ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOCOCCAL MENINGITIS; CRYPTOCOCCUS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUTROPHIL COUNT; PNEUMOCOCCAL MENINGITIS; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SOUTH AFRICA; TUBERCULOSIS; TUBERCULOUS MENINGITIS; BACTERIUM; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CLASSIFICATION; FUNGUS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MENINGITIS; MICROBIOLOGY; VIROLOGY;

ADULT; BACTERIA; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; FEMALE; FUNGI; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; MENINGITIS; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SOUTH AFRICA; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 77949448641     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-10-67     Document Type: Article

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