High Mortality amongst Adolescents and Adults with Bacterial Meningitis in Sub-Saharan Africa: An Analysis of 715 Cases from Malawi

• Emma C. Wall ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Emma C. Wall, Katharine Cartwright

  * E-mail: emma.wall@doctors.org.uk

  Affiliations Clinical group, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom, Department of Clinical Research, Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Trust, Blantyre, Malawi

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• Katharine Cartwright ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Emma C. Wall, Katharine Cartwright

  Affiliations Department of Microbiology, University Hospitals of Leicestershire NHS Trust, Leicester, United Kingdom, Department of Medicine, College of Medicine Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital, Blantyre, Malawi

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• Matthew Scarborough,

  Affiliation Department of Infectious Disease, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, United Kingdom

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• Katherine M. Ajdukiewicz,

  Affiliations Department of Infectious Disease, North Manchester General Hospital, Manchester, United Kingdom, Department of Medicine, College of Medicine Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital, Blantyre, Malawi

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• Patrick Goodson,

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, College of Medicine Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital, Blantyre, Malawi

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• James Mwambene,

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, College of Medicine Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital, Blantyre, Malawi

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• Eduard E. Zijlstra,

  Affiliation Department of Infectious Disease, Rotterdam Centre for Tropical Medicine, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

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• Stephen B. Gordon,

  Affiliation Clinical group, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom

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• Neil French,

  Affiliations Department of Clinical Research, Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Trust, Blantyre, Malawi, Institute of Infection and Global Health, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom

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• Brian Faragher,

  Affiliation Clinical group, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom

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• Robert S. Heyderman,

  Affiliations Clinical group, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom, Department of Clinical Research, Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Trust, Blantyre, Malawi, Department of Medicine, College of Medicine Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital, Blantyre, Malawi

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• David G. Lalloo

  Affiliation Clinical group, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom

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