Cerebral infarction in adults with bacterial meningitis

Neurocritical Care

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 421-427

  Schut, Ewout S ^a   Lucas, Marjolein J ^a   Brouwer, Matthijs C ^a   Vergouwen, Mervyn D I ^a,b   Van Der Ende, Arie ^b   Van De Beek, Diederik ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cerebral infarction; Meningitis; Neurological infections

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BRAIN INFARCTION; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED INFECTION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EPIDEMIC MENINGITIS; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OTITIS; PNEUMOCOCCAL MENINGITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SINUSITIS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; AGED; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; FEMALE; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MORBIDITY; NETHERLANDS; RISK FACTOR; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

ADULT; AGED; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; COHORT STUDIES; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENINGITIS, BACTERIAL; MENINGITIS, MENINGOCOCCAL; MENINGITIS, PNEUMOCOCCAL; MIDDLE AGED; MORBIDITY; NETHERLANDS; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 84866378413     PISSN: 15416933     EISSN: 15560961     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12028-011-9634-4     Document Type: Article

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