Clinical features and prognostic factors in adults with bacterial meningitis

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In adults presenting with community-acquired acute bacterial meningitis, the sensitivity of the classic triad of fever, neck stiffness, and altered mental status is low, but almost all present with at least two of the four symptoms of headache, fever, neck stiffness, and altered mental status. The m …
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Authors van de Beek D;de Gans J;Spanjaard L;Weisfelt M;Reitsma JB;Vermeulen M;;
Journal The New England journal of medicine
Year 2004
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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15509818
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National Center for Biotechnology Information NCBI NLM MEDLINE humans pubmed abstract nih national institutes of health national library of medicine prognosis research support non-u.s. gov't adult female male middle aged Prospective Studies risk factors Netherlands / epidemiology acute disease meningitis multivariate analysis streptococcus / isolation & purification fever / etiology diederik van de beek jan de gans bacterial / diagnosis* bacterial / microbiology staphylococcus / isolation & purification streptococcus pneumoniae / isolation & purification neck haemophilus influenzae / isolation & purification bacterial / mortality pmid:15509818 doi:10.1056/nejmoa040845 marinus vermeulen community-acquired infections / mortality consciousness disorders / etiology* haemophilus influenzae / classification headache / etiology* bacterial / complications neisseria meningitidis / isolation & purification

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