Acute bacterial meningitis in adults: A hospital based study in Yemen

Japanese Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 128-131

  Abdulrab, Amin ^a   Algobaty, Faker ^a   Salem, Ahmed K ^a   Mohammed, Y A K ^a  

^a SANA A UNIVERSITY   (Yemen)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGING; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID CULTURE; CHEST INFECTION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MORTALITY; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTION; RECURRENT DISEASE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SEIZURE; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; TEACHING HOSPITAL; YEMEN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BACTERIA; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; MALE; MENINGITIS, BACTERIAL; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SPINAL PUNCTURE; YEMEN; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77950641765     PISSN: 13446304     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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