Population-based surveillance for bacterial meningitis in China, September 2006-December 2009

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 61-69

  Li, Yixing ^a   Yin, Zundong ^a   Shao, Zhujun ^b   Li, Manshi ^c   Liang, Xiaofeng ^a   Sandhu, Hardeep S ^d   Hadler, Stephen C ^d   Li, Junhong ^a   Sun, Yinqi ^e   Li, Jing ^e   Zou, Wenjing ^a   Lin, Mei ^f   Zuo, Shuyan ^g   Mayer, Leonard W ^a,d   Novak, Ryan T ^a,d   Zhu, Bingqing ^h   Xu, Li ^h   Luo, Huiming ^a   Liang, Guodong ⁱ   Wang, Huanyu ⁱ   Ning, Guijun ⁱ   Cairns, Lisa ^g   Cavallaro, Kathleen F ^d   Liu, Chong ⁱ   Tian, Taotao ⁱ   Qi, Shunxiang ⁱ   Xie, Yihong ⁱ   more..

^a CHINESE CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (China)

^b National Institute for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention   (China)

^c Institute of Bacterial Infectious Diseases Shandong Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention   (China)

^d CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^e Hebei Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention   (China)

^f Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region Center for Disease Control and Prevention   (China)

^g WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^h State Key Laboratory for Infectious Disease Prevention and Control   (China)

ⁱ State Key Laboratory for Infectious Disease Prevention and Control ^*  (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE MENINGITIS AND ENCEPHALITIS SYNDROME; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID CULTURE; CHILD; CHINA; EPIDEMIC MENINGITIS; FEMALE; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE TYPE B; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORBIDITY; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCHOOL CHILD; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

BACTERIA; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; CHINA; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE TYPE B; MENINGITIS; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; PNEUMOCOCCAL; POPULATION-BASED SURVEILLANCE; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHINA; GEOGRAPHY, MEDICAL; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; MENINGITIS, BACTERIAL; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; SEASONS; SENTINEL SURVEILLANCE;

EID: 84890937571     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid2001.120375     Document Type: Article

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