PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Michael J Griffiths
AU  - Fiona McGill
AU  - Tom Solomon
TI  - Management of acute meningitis
AID  - 10.7861/clinmedicine.18-2-164
DP  - 2018 Apr 01
TA  - Clinical Medicine
PG  - 164--169
VI  - 18
IP  - 2
4099  - http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/18/2/164.short
4100  - http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/18/2/164.full
SO  - Clin Med2018 Apr 01; 18
AB  - Acute meningitis remains a devastating disease. Clinicians need a low threshold for suspecting meningitis, to undertake appropriate investigations and provide treatment in a timely manner, to minimise the risk of poor outcome in bacterial disease, while limiting unnecessary treatment in viral meningitis.