Clinical features of bacterial meningitis among hospitalised children in Kenya
Background Diagnosing bacterial meningitis is essential to optimise the type and duration of antimicrobial therapy to limit mortality and sequelae. In sub-Saharan Africa, many public hospitals lack laboratory capacity, relying on clinical features to empirically treat or not treat meningitis. We inv...
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Format: | Journal article |
Language: | English |
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BioMed Central
2021
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