Invasive meningococcal infection: Analysis of 110 cases from a tertiary care centre in North East India

Indian Journal of Pediatrics

Volumn 80, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 359-364

  Dass Hazarika, Rashna ^a,b   Deka, Nayan Mani ^a   Khyriem, A B ^a   Lyngdoh, W V ^a   Barman, Himesh ^a   Duwarah, Sourabh Gohain ^a   Jain, Pankaj ^a   Borthakur, Dibakar ^a  

^a NORTH EASTERN INDIRA GANDHI REGIONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH AND MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^b NONE   (India)

Author keywords

Meningitis; Meningococcemia; Neisseria meningitidis; Purpura fulminans

Indexed keywords

CEFTRIAXONE; CHLORAMPHENICOL; DEXAMETHASONE;

ABDOMINAL DISEASE; ABDUCENS NERVE PARALYSIS; ACUTE RESPIRATORY FAILURE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTERIOR FONTANEL; ARTHRITIS; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; CEREBRAL SALT WASTING; CHILD; DIABETES INSIPIDUS; ENCEPHALITIS; EPIDEMIC MENINGITIS; FEMALE; FEVER; FULMINATING PURPURA; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEADACHE; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HERPES LABIALIS; HUMAN; INAPPROPRIATE VASOPRESSIN SECRETION; INDIA; INFANT; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; IRRITABILITY; LIVER DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENINGOCOCCEMIA; MENINGOCOCCOSIS; MENINX DISORDER; MORTALITY; OPHTHALMOPLEGIA; OPTIC NEURITIS; PATHOLOGICAL CRYING; PNEUMONIA; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PURPURA; RASH; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; SEIZURE; SHOCK; SUBDURAL EMPYEMA; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; VOMITING;

ADOLESCENT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CEFTRIAXONE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHLORAMPHENICOL; DEXAMETHASONE; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; FEMALE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; INDIA; MALE; MENINGOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; PENICILLINS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TERTIARY CARE CENTERS;

EID: 84887211684     PISSN: 00195456     EISSN: 09737693     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12098-012-0855-0     Document Type: Article

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