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Dramatic reduction of mortality in pneumococcal meningitis

BACKGROUND: Acute bacterial meningitis is still a life threatening disease. METHODS: We performed a retrospective observational study on the clinical characteristics of consecutively admitted patients with acute pneumococcal meningitis in a single tertiary care center in central Europe (from 2003 un...

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Autores principales: Buchholz, Grete, Koedel, Uwe, Pfister, Hans-Walter, Kastenbauer, Stefan, Klein, Matthias
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5045860/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27716447
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13054-016-1498-8