Do steroids benefit patients with bacterial meningitis?

Nature Reviews Neurology

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 529-530

  Quagliarello, Vincent ^a   Scheld, W Michael ^b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BACTERIAL VACCINE; CORTICOSTEROID; DEXAMETHASONE; STEROID;

BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DISABILITY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG EFFICACY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INCIDENCE; INFECTION RISK; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MALNUTRITION; MEDICAL CARE; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MORTALITY; NERVOUS SYSTEM INFLAMMATION; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH PROBLEM; SHORT SURVEY; STREPTOCOCCUS SUIS; NOTE;

HUMANS; MENINGITIS, BACTERIAL; STEROIDS;

EID: 77957899123     PISSN: 17594758     EISSN: 17594766     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrneurol.2010.132     Document Type: Short Survey

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