Tuberculous meningitis in adults: a review of a decade of developments focusing on prognostic factors for outcome.

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Published in Future Microbiol on September 01, 2012

Authors

Flavia Brancusi1, Jeremy Farrar, Dorothee Heemskerk

Author Affiliations

1: Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA.

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