Axonal injury, a neglected cause of CNS damage in bacterial meningitis.

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Published in Neurology on February 10, 2004

Authors

Roland Nau1, Joachim Gerber, Stephanie Bunkowski, Wolfgang Brück

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Neurology, University of Göttingen, Germany. rnau@gwdg.de

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