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Clinical features to distinguish meningitis among young infants at a rural Kenyan hospital

BACKGROUND: Detection of meningitis is essential to optimise the duration and choice of antimicrobial agents to limit mortality and sequelae. In low and middle-income countries most health facilities lack laboratory capacity and rely on clinical features to empirically treat meningitis. OBJECTIVE: W...

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Autores principales:	Obiero, Christina W, Mturi, Neema, Mwarumba, Salim, Ngari, Moses, Newton, Charles, Boele van Hensbroek, Michael, Berkley, James Alexander
Formato:	Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	BMJ Publishing Group 2021
Materias:	Global Child Health
Acceso en línea:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7841476/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32819909 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/archdischild-2020-318913

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