Comparison of cerebrospinal fluid in newborns and in infants ≤2 months old with or without meningitis

Pediatrics International

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 336-340

  Tarvij Eslami, Saeedeh ^a   Nassirian, Hossain ^a   Mojgan, Bayat Mokhtary ^a   Bahieh, Zarif Zakerian ^a   Elham, Hatami ^a   Alimohamad, Nassirian ^b   Ehsan, Sobhani ^b  

^a Faculty of Medical Sciences   (Iran)

^b ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

cerebrospinal fluid; infant; meningitis; newborn

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BLOOD CULTURE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NEUTROPHIL COUNT; NEWBORN; NEWBORN MORTALITY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MENINGITIS;

EID: 84861643541     PISSN: 13288067     EISSN: 1442200X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-200X.2011.03551.x     Document Type: Article

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