Should there be a standardised approach to the diagnostic workup of suspected adult encephalitis? A case series from Australia

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Huppatz, Clare ^a,b   Gawarikar, Yash ^c   Levi, Chris ^c,d   Kelly, Paul M ^b   Williams, David ^c,e   Dalton, Craig ^a   Massey, Peter ^a   Givney, Rodney ^d,f   Durrheim, David N ^a,e  

^a HUNTER NEW ENGLAND POPULATION HEALTH   (Australia)

^b The Australian National University   (Australia)

^c JOHN HUNTER HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^e HUNTER MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^f JOHN HUNTER HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNGUS ANTIGEN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CASE STUDY; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOCOCCUS; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ENCEPHALITIS; FEMALE; FEVER; GLASGOW OUTCOME SCALE; HEADACHE; HERPES VIRUS; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; LENGTH OF STAY; LETHARGY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYCOSIS; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PHOTOPHOBIA; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RISK FACTOR; SEIZURE; STANDARDIZATION; VIRUS ENCEPHALITIS; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; MEDICAL AUDIT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STANDARD;

ADMITTING DEPARTMENT, HOSPITAL; ADULT; DIAGNOSTIC TESTS, ROUTINE; ENCEPHALITIS; HUMANS; MEDICAL AUDIT; NEW SOUTH WALES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 78650037204     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-10-353     Document Type: Article

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