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Clinical indicators of bacterial meningitis among neonates and young infants in rural Kenya.
- Abstract:
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BACKGROUND: Meningitis is notoriously difficult to diagnose in infancy because its clinical features are non-specific. World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines suggest several indicative signs, based on limited data. We aimed to identify indicators of bacterial meningitis in young infants in Kenya, and compared their performance to the WHO guidelines. We also examined the feasibility of developing a scoring system for meningitis. METHODS: We studied all admissions aged < 60 days to Kilif...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- BioMed Central Publisher's website
- Journal:
- BMC infectious diseases Journal website
- Volume:
- 11
- Issue:
- 1
- Pages:
- 301
- Publication date:
- 2011-01-01
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1471-2334
- ISSN:
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1471-2334
- Source identifiers:
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205985
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- Language:
- English
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- Local pid:
- pubs:205985
- Deposit date:
- 2012-12-19
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- Copyright holder:
- Mwaniki et al
- Copyright date:
- 2011
- Notes:
- © 2011 Mwaniki et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
- Licence:
- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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