Meningitis and encephalitis

CONTINUUM Lifelong Learning in Neurology

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1010-1023

  Roos, Karen L ^a   Greenlee, John E ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR; AMITRIPTYLINE; AMPICILLIN; CEFOTAXIME; CEFTRIAXONE; DEXAMETHASONE; DOXYCYCLINE; ETHAMBUTOL; FAMCICLOVIR; FOSCARNET; FOSPHENYTOIN SODIUM; GANCICLOVIR; ISONIAZID; LORAZEPAM; MANNITOL; MENINGOCOCCUS VACCINE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PHENOBARBITAL; PREDNISONE; PYRAZINAMIDE; RIFAMPICIN; STREPTOMYCIN; VALACICLOVIR; VANCOMYCIN;

ADRENAL INSUFFICIENCY; ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ATAXIA; BABINSKI REFLEX; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BLOOD CELL COUNT; BRAIN ABSCESS; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN VASCULITIS; CASE REPORT; CEREBRAL SINUS THROMBOSIS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CHILL; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFUSION; COUGHING; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; DIAPHORESIS; EMERGENCY WARD; ENCEPHALITIS; EPIDEMIC MENINGITIS; EPIDURAL ABSCESS; FEMALE; FEVER; FUNGAL MENINGITIS; GRAM STAINING; HAEMOPHILUS MENINGITIS; HASHIMOTO ENCEPHALOPATHY; HEADACHE; HERPES SIMPLEX ENCEPHALITIS; HERPES ZOSTER ENCEPHALITIS; HUMAN; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; MENINGITIS; MILIARY TUBERCULOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; MYELITIS; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PNEUMOCOCCAL MENINGITIS; POINT OF CARE TESTING; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; ROCKY MOUNTAIN SPOTTED FEVER; SEIZURE; SPUTUM; STROKE; SUBDURAL EMPYEMA; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TUBERCULOUS MENINGITIS; VIRUS MENINGITIS;

EID: 80053587352     PISSN: 10802371     EISSN: 15386899     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/01.CON.0000407057.02414.a9     Document Type: Review

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