Clinical indicators of bacterial meningitis among neonates and young infants in rural Kenya

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 11, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Mwaniki, Michael K ^a   Talbert, Alison W ^a   Njuguna, Patricia ^a   English, Mike ^a,b   Were, Eugene ^a   Lowe, Brett S ^a   Newton, Charles R ^a,b   Berkley, James A ^a,b  

^a KENYA MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Clinical signs; Lumbar puncture; Meningitis; Neonates; Resource poor; Young infants

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BACTERIUM EXAMINATION; BODY TEMPERATURE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL INDICATOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVULSION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEVER; FONTANEL; HUMAN; INFANT; IRRITABILITY; KENYA; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEWBORN; PROGNOSIS; REFERENCE VALUE; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VALIDATION PROCESS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CYTOLOGY; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HOSPITAL; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PUNCTURE; RURAL POPULATION;

CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; FEMALE; GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; KENYA; MALE; MENINGITIS, BACTERIAL; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RURAL POPULATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPINAL PUNCTURE; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 80055027813     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-11-301     Document Type: Article

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