Tuberculous meningitis: treat upon suspicion
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Tuberculous Meningitis
This is a brief review of the cases of tuberculous meningitis treated at Ham Green Hospital with streptomycin. Since 1948, seventy-seven cases have been admitted and of these thirty-five (45 per cent) are still living. For the purpose of this review seventeen cases are excluded?eight because they have been admitted too recently and nine, the earliest cases, either because they received quite in...
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عنوان ژورنال: Case Reports
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1757-790X
DOI: 10.1136/bcr-2012-006627