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Annals of Tropical Medicine & Parasitology Volume 83, 1989 - Issue 4
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Latex particle agglutination tests as an adjunct to the diagnosis of bacterial meningitis: a study from Malawi

L. E. CuevasDepartment of Tropical Paediatrics and International Child Health, School of Tropical Medicine, Pembroke Place, LiverpoolL3 5QA, U.K.
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C. A. HartDepartment of Medical Microbiology, University of Liverpool, P. O. Box 147, LiverpoolL69 3BX, U.K.
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G. MughoghoClinical Laboratory, Kamuzu Central Hospital, Lilongwe, Malawi
Pages 375-379 | Received 20 Oct 1988, Published online: 15 Nov 2016

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C. A. Hart & L. E. Cuevas. (1997) Meningococcal disease in Africa. Annals of Tropical Medicine & Parasitology 91:7, pages 777-785.
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B. Bellete, L. E. Cuevas, P. Kazembe, G. Mughogho, D. Sunderland & C. A. Hart. (1994) Meningococcal disease in Malawi: studies on the genetic relatedness of the bacteria. Annals of Tropical Medicine & Parasitology 88:1, pages 59-64.
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K Surinder, K Bineeta & M Megha. (2007) LATEX PARTICLE AGGLUTINATION TEST AS AN ADJUNCT TO THE DIAGNOSIS OF BACTERIAL MENINGITIS. Indian Journal of Medical Microbiology 25:4, pages 395-397.
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Stephen B. Gordon, Amanda L. Walsh, Mas Chaponda, Melita A. Gordon, Douglas Soko, Milton Mbwvinji, Malcolm E. Molyneux & Robert C. Read. (2000) Bacterial Meningitis in Malawian Adults: Pneumococcal Disease is Common, Severe, and Seasonal. Clinical Infectious Diseases 31:1, pages 53-57.
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Paulo A.M. Camargos, Marcelo S. Almeida, Isabel Cardoso, Geraldo L. Filho, Deodoro M. Filho, JoséI. Martins, Klever W.B. Batista, Roberto C.O. Silva & Carlos M.F. Antunes. (1995) Latex particle agglutination test in the diagnosis of Haemophilus influenzae type b, Streptococcus pneumoniae and Neisseria meningitidis A and C meningitis in infants and children. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology 48:10, pages 1245-1250.
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Elizabeth Fasola & Patricia Ferrieri. (1992) Laboratory Diagnostic Methods for Central Nervous System Infections. Neurosurgery Clinics of North America 3:2, pages 279-290.
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S.J. Holland, O. Marzouk, A.P.J. Thomson, J.A. Sills & C.A. Hart. (1990) Sensitivity and specificity of serum antigen detection for diagnosis of meningococcal disease in children. Serodiagnosis and Immunotherapy in Infectious Disease 4:5, pages 345-349.
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