Acute bacterial meningitis in children admitted to a rural Kenyan hospital: increasing antibiotic resistance and outcome.

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Published in Pediatr Infect Dis J on November 01, 2002

Authors

Isaiah Mwangi1, James Berkley, Brett Lowe, Norbert Peshu, Kevin Marsh, Charles R J C Newton

Author Affiliations

1: Kenya Medical Research Institute, Center for Geographic Medicine Research-Coast, Kilifi, Kenya.

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