Goal directed therapy for suspected acute bacterial meningitis in adults and adolescents in sub-Saharan Africa

• Emma C. Wall ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

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

  Affiliations Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Programme, Blantyre, Malawi, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Pembroke Place, Liverpool, United Kingdom, Division of Infection and Immunity, University College London, London, United Kingdom

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2732-4497

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• Mavuto Mukaka,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Programme, Blantyre, Malawi, Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit (MORU), Bangkok, Thailand, Oxford Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nuffield Department of Medicine Research Building, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

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• Brigitte Denis,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Programme, Blantyre, Malawi

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• Veronica S. Mlozowa,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Project administration

  Affiliation Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Programme, Blantyre, Malawi

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• Malango Msukwa,

  Roles Data curation, Project administration, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Programme, Blantyre, Malawi

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• Khumbo Kasambala,

  Roles Investigation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Programme, Blantyre, Malawi

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• Mulinda Nyrienda,

  Roles Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Adult Emergency and Trauma Centre, Ministry of Health, Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital, Blantyre, Malawi

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• Theresa J. Allain,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, College of Medicine, Blantyre, Malawi

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• Brian Faragher,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Pembroke Place, Liverpool, United Kingdom

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• Robert S. Heyderman ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Robert S. Heyderman, David G. Lalloo

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Programme, Blantyre, Malawi, Division of Infection and Immunity, University College London, London, United Kingdom

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• David G. Lalloo

  Contributed equally to this work with: Robert S. Heyderman, David G. Lalloo

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Pembroke Place, Liverpool, United Kingdom

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