Acute community-acquired bacterial meningitis in adults: An evidence-based review

Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine

Volumn 79, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 393-400

  Bhimraj, Adarsh ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CROSS INFECTION; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LISTERIA; MICROBIOLOGY; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PUNCTURE; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

ADULT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; CROSS INFECTION; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; LISTERIA; MENINGITIS, BACTERIAL; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; SPINAL PUNCTURE; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84862980105     PISSN: 08911150     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3949/ccjm.79gr.12003     Document Type: Article

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