Community-Acquired Meningitis in Older Adults: Clinical Features, Etiology, and Prognostic Factors

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 62, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 2064-2070

  Wang, Amy Y ^a   Machicado, Jorge D ^a   Khoury, Nabil T ^a   Wootton, Susan H ^a   Salazar, Lucrecia ^a   Hasbun, Rodrigo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

community acquired; meningitis; older adults

Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; GLUCOSE;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; APHASIA; ARTICLE; ASEPTIC MENINGITIS; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED MENINGITIS; COMORBIDITY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRANIAL NERVE INJURY; CRYPTOCOCCAL MENINGITIS; DESCRIPTIVE RESEARCH; FEMALE; FEVER; GLASGOW OUTCOME SCALE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENINGITIS; NAUSEA; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHOTOPHOBIA; PROGNOSIS; PROTEIN CEREBROSPINAL FLUID LEVEL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STIFF NECK; UNITED STATES; VIRUS MENINGITIS; WEST NILE VIRUS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; BRAIN; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; MENINGITIS, BACTERIAL; MENINGITIS, CRYPTOCOCCAL; MENINGITIS, VIRAL; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; SEX DIFFERENCE; VERY ELDERLY; WEST NILE FEVER; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GLASGOW OUTCOME SCALE; GLUCOSE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MENINGITIS, BACTERIAL; MENINGITIS, CRYPTOCOCCAL; MENINGITIS, VIRAL; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEX FACTORS; TEXAS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WEST NILE FEVER; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84922479941     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jgs.13110     Document Type: Article

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