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ArticleBMJ case reports2024

Immunocompromised teenager with meningitis caused by

Birgitta Ehrnström, Maria Schei Haugan, Jo Bønding Andreasen, Asbjørn Ellingsen

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Article in BMJ case reports, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
1citing papers in PubMed
0.7field-weighted citation impact, top 32% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed, 2 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Birgitta EhrnströmDepartment of Infectious Diseases, St Olavs Hospital, Trondheim University Hospital, Trondheim, Norway birgitta.ehrnstrom@stolav.no.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4233-5725
Maria Schei HauganDepartment of Medical Microbiology, St Olavs Hospital, Trondheim University Hospital, Trondheim, Norway.
Jo Bønding AndreasenClinic of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, St Olavs Hospital, Trondheim University Hospital, Trondheim, Norway.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6615-4438
Asbjørn EllingsenDepartment of Infectious Diseases, St Olavs Hospital, Trondheim University Hospital, Trondheim, Norway.
St Olav's University Hospital · NOAalborg University Hospital · DK

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Infection in the immunocompromised patient is often challenging on multiple levels. It can be difficult to distinguish between manifestations of the underlying disease, infection or malignancy. Symptoms may be vague or even absent, deviations in the common inflammatory parameters discrete, imaging findings scarce and the causative microbe may be a true pathogen as well as opportunistic. Here, we report an immunosuppressed female in her late teens with a purulent meningitis due to

Indexed as

Meningitis, BacterialUreaplasma InfectionsAdolescentAnti-Bacterial AgentsCentral Nervous SystemFemaleHumansImmunocompromised HostUreaplasmaAnti-Bacterial AgentsComa and raised intracranial pressureInfectious diseasesIntensive careMeningitisRheumatology

Identifiers

PMID38453229
PMCPMC10921514
OpenAlexW4392562817

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