Differential diagnosis of scrub typhus meningitis from bacterial meningitis using clinical and laboratory features

Neurology India

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 17-20

  Varghese, George M ^a   Mathew, Anoop ^a   Kumar, Sudhir ^a   Abraham, Oriapadickal Cherian ^a   Trowbridge, Paul ^b   Mathai, Elizabeth ^c  

^a CHRISTIAN MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Aseptic; differential diagnosis; meningitis; scrub typhus

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE DURATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDIA; LABORATORY TEST; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LYMPHOCYTE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENINGITIS; PREDICTIVE VALUE; SCRUB TYPHUS; TEACHING HOSPITAL; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; MENINGITIS, BACTERIAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SCRUB TYPHUS;

EID: 84875747471     PISSN: 00283886     EISSN: 19984022     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0028-3886.107919     Document Type: Article

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