Role of clinical presentations and routine CSF analysis in the rapid diagnosis of acute bacterial meningitis in cases of negative gram stained smears

Journal of Tropical Medicine

Volumn 2014, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Fouad, Rabab ^a   Khairy, Marwa ^a   Fathalah, Waleed ^a   Gad, Taha ^b   El Kholy, Badawy ^a   Yosry, Ayman ^a  

^a CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^b Genetic Eng and Biotech Res Inst   (Egypt)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; GLUCOSE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTERIOR FONTANEL; ANTERIOR FONTANEL BULGE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BLURRED VISION; BRUDZINSKI SIGN; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CHILD; CHILD NUTRITION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; CRYING; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIARRHEA; FEMALE; FEVER; GLUCOSE BRAIN LEVEL; GRAM STAINING; HEADACHE; HUMAN; INFANT; INFLAMMATION; IRRITABILITY; KERNIG SIGN; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LEUKOCYTOSIS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENINGITIS; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUTROPHIL COUNT; NEWBORN; OTITIS MEDIA; PATHOLOGICAL CRYING; PHOTOPHOBIA; PNEUMONIA; PROTEIN CEREBROSPINAL FLUID LEVEL; RASH; RIGIDITY; SEIZURE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINUSITIS; SPINAL ANESTHESIA; SUCKLING ANIMAL; SYMPTOM; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; VOMITING; WEAK SUCKLING;

EID: 84899580221     PISSN: 16879686     EISSN: 16879694     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2014/213762     Document Type: Article

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