Validation of Thwaites' diagnostic scoring system for the differential diagnosis of tuberculous meningitis and bacterial meningitis

Japanese Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 67, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 428-431

  Zhang, Yan Liang ^a   Lin, S ^b   Shao, Ling Yun ^c   Zhang, Wen Hong ^c   Weng, Xin Hua ^c  

^a NANJING MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b FUJIAN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BRUDZINSKI SIGN; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID CYTOLOGY; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSPOT ASSAY; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEMALE; FEVER; HEADACHE; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; NEUTROPHIL LYMPHOCYTE RATIO; PREDICTIVE VALUE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THWAITES DIAGNOSTIC SCORING SYSTEM; TUBERCULOUS MENINGITIS; VALIDATION STUDY; VOMITING; ADOLESCENT; AGED; CHINA; CLINICAL MEDICINE; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; MENINGITIS, BACTERIAL; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHINA; CLINICAL LABORATORY TECHNIQUES; CLINICAL MEDICINE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; MALE; MENINGITIS, BACTERIAL; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84910633417     PISSN: 13446304     EISSN: 18842836     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7883/yoken.67.428     Document Type: Article

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