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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 in...

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Autores principales:	Obiero, Christina W., Mturi, Neema, Mwarumba, Salim, Ngari, Moses, Newton, Charles R., van Hensbroek, Michaël Boele, Berkley, James A.
Formato:	Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	BioMed Central 2021
Materias:	Research Article
Acceso en línea:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8176744/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34082778 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12916-021-01998-3

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