Unearthing the Unknown Causes of Meningitis

Senjuti Saha^{1

2}

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¹ 1Child Health Research Foundation, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
² 2Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland.

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Senjuti Saha. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2020 Aug.

. 2020 Aug;103(2):544-545.

doi: 10.4269/ajtmh.20-0502. Epub 2020 Jun 18.

Senjuti Saha^{1

2}

¹ 1Child Health Research Foundation, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
² 2Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland.

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Etiology of Pediatric Meningitis in West Africa Using Molecular Methods in the Era of Conjugate Vaccines against Pneumococcus, Meningococcus, and Haemophilus influenzae Type b.
Kwambana-Adams BA, Liu J, Okoi C, Mwenda JM, Mohammed NI, Tsolenyanu E, Renner LA, Ansong D, Tagbo BN, Bashir MF, Hama MK, Sonko MA, Gratz J, Worwui A, Ndow P, Cohen AL, Serhan F, Mihigo R, Antonio M, Houpt E; Paediatric Bacterial Meningitis Surveillance Network in West Africa. Kwambana-Adams BA, et al. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2020 Aug;103(2):696-703. doi: 10.4269/ajtmh.19-0566. Epub 2020 May 21. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2020. PMID: 32458777 Free PMC article.

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