The low rate of bacterial meningitis in children, ages 6 to 18 months, with simple febrile seizures

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 18, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1114-1120

  Hom, Jeffrey ^a   Medwid, Kelly ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; FEBRILE CONVULSION; HUMAN; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PLEOCYTOSIS; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; VACCINATION;

COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HAEMOPHILUS INFECTIONS; HUMANS; IMMUNIZATION; INFANT; LEUKOCYTOSIS; MALE; MENINGITIS, BACTERIAL; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEIZURES, FEBRILE; SPINAL PUNCTURE;

EID: 81755181029     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: 15532712     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.2011.01216.x     Document Type: Article

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