Meningococcal infections: reducing the case fatality rate by giving penicillin before admission to hospital.

Strang, J.; Pugh, Edward

doi:10.1136/bmj.305.6846.141

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Meningococcal infections: reducing the case fatality rate by giving penicillin before admission to hospital.

Published in BMJ • Jul 18, 1992

Authors:

J. Strang

Edward Pugh

Abstract

OBJECTIVE: To determine whether parenteral penicillin given before admission to hospital reduces the case fatality rate in patients with meningococcal disease. DESIGN: Retrospective analysis of 46 consecutive patients admitted to hospital with meningococcal disease from January 1986 to March 1991. S...

Subject

Medicine

Case fatality rate

Penicillin

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