High Mortality amongst Adolescents and Adults with Bacterial Meningitis in Sub-Saharan Africa: An Analysis of 715 Cases from Malawi

Mortality from bacterial meningitis in African adults is significantly higher than those in better resourced settings and adjunctive therapeutic interventions such as dexamethasone and glycerol have been shown to be ineffective. We conducted a study analysing data from clinical trials of bacterial m...

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Hauptverfasser: Wall, Emma C., Cartwright, Katharine, Scarborough, Matthew, Ajdukiewicz, Katherine M., Goodson, Patrick, Mwambene, James, Zijlstra, Eduard E., Gordon, Stephen B., French, Neil, Faragher, Brian, Heyderman, Robert S., Lalloo, David G.
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Sprache:Inglês
Veröffentlicht: Public Library of Science 2013
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Online Zugang:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3716691/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23894538
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0069783
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