Hydrocephalus is a rare outcome in community-acquired bacterial meningitis in adults: a retrospective analysis
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Hydrocephalus is a rare outcome in community-acquired bacterial meningitis in adults: a retrospective analysis
BACKGROUND Community-acquired bacterial meningitis (CABM) continues to have a high mortality rate and often results in severe sequelae among survivors. Lately, an increased effort has been focused on describing the neurological complications of meningitis including hydrocephalus. To aid in this field of research we set out to ascertain the risk and outcome of hydrocephalus in patients with comm...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMC Infectious Diseases
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1471-2334
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-13-321