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Neck Stiffness and Fever

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  • Tuberculosis (TB) meningitis is an infection of the meninges of the brain caused by the bacteria Mycobacterium tuberculosis

  • Up to 20% of patients with TB meningitis have no meningismus signs

  • Xpert gene MTB/RIF is a rapid and sensitive way of detecting microbiologically proven TB meningitis with a high sensitivity

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  1. Faculty of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University of Yaounde 1, Yaounde, Cameroon

    Tangie Ngek Larry

  2. Tokombere District Hospital, Tokombere, Cameroon

    Derrick Tembi Efie

  3. Health and Human Development Research Network, Douala, Cameroon

    Derrick Tembi Efie

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  1. Student’s Scientific Research Center (SSRC), Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS), Tehran, Iran

    Farzaneh Rahmani

  2. Department of Immunology, School of Medicine, Research Center for Immunodeficiencies (RCID), Children’s Medical Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS), Tehran, Iran

    Nima Rezaei

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Larry, T.N., Efie, D.T. (2020). Neck Stiffness and Fever. In: Rahmani, F., Rezaei, N. (eds) Pediatric Autoimmunity and Transplantation. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-26280-8_26

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