Lumbar puncture in children from an area of malaria endemicity who present with a febrile seizure

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 534-540

  Laman, Moses ^a,d   Manning, Laurens ^d   Hwaiwhange, Ilomo ^b   Vince, John ^c   Aipit, Susan ^a   Mare, Trevor ^a   Warrel, Jonathan ^a   Karunajeewa, Harin ^d,e   Siba, Peter ^a   Mueller, Ivo ^a   Davis, Timothy M E ^d  

^a PAPUA NEW GUINEA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Papua New Guinea)

^b Pediatrics Division   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PAPUA NEW GUINEA   (Papua New Guinea)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^e WESTERN HEALTH   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; CHILD; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COMA; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ENDEMIC DISEASE; FEBRILE CONVULSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALE; MENINGISM; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUBACUTE SCLEROSING PANENCEPHALITIS; VIRUS ENCEPHALITIS;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ENCEPHALITIS, VIRAL; ENDEMIC DISEASES; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMANS; INFANT; MALARIA; MALE; MENINGITIS, BACTERIAL; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEIZURES, FEBRILE; SPINAL PUNCTURE;

EID: 77955799146     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/655679     Document Type: Article

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