Bacterial meningitis in childhood.
A wide variety of pathogens cause childhood meningitis and clinical features and-outcomes vary according to the organism. Bacterial meningitis caused by Neisseria meningitidis, Streptococcus pneumoniae and Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) is of particular importance as it has a high mortality and...
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Format: | Journal article |
Sprache: | English |
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2011
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