Point-of-Care approaches for meningitis diagnosis in a low-resource setting (Southwestern Uganda) : observational cohort study protocol of the "PI-POC" trial

• Main Authors: Gaudenzi, Giulia, Kumbakumba, Elias, Rasti, Reza, Nanjebe, Deborah, Réu, Pedro, Nyehangane, Dan, Mårtensson, Andreas, Nassejje, Milly, Karlsson, Jens, Mzee, John, Nilsson, Peter, Businge, Stephen, Loh, Edmund, Yap, Boum II, Andersson-Svahn, Helene, Gantelius, Jesper, Mwanga-Amumpaire, Juliet, Alfvén, Tobias
• Other Authors: Singapore Centre for Environmental Life Sciences and Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: Science::Medicine; Global Health; Central Nervous System Infections
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/147053
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Background: A timely differential diagnostic is essential to identify the etiology of central nervous system (CNS) infections in children, in order to facilitate targeted treatment, manage patients, and improve clinical outcome. Objective: The Pediatric Infection-Point-of-Care (PI-POC) trial is inve...