bacterial meningitis
BACTERIAL MENINGITIS
... this would mean that 9,000 children per year develop a significant CNS handicap from this disease. Thus, prevention of bacterial meningitis with vaccine, rather than a[r] ...
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CEREBROSPINAL FLUID FINDINGS IN NEONATAL BACTERIAL MENINGITIS
... Results: A total of294 files (16 boys, 127 girls; 54 preterrn, 240 full-term in fants) were reviewed. Fifteen newborns (8 girls, 7 boys) had positive CSF culture results. A significant statistical relationship was not ...
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Osmotic therapies added to antibiotics for acute bacterial meningitis
... for bacterial metabolic pathways in the central nervous system (CNS) (Mahdi ...following meningitis has been suggested and the presence of glycerol may attenuate the production of free radicals that may ...
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Universal Primers Used for Detection of Bacterial Meningitis
... acute bacterial meningitis in countries with general vaccination against Haemophilus influenzae type ...cause meningitis, such as Streptococcus agalactiae (Group B streptococci; GBS), Listeria ...
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Bacterial Meningitis Secondary to Abscess of the Nasal Septum
... Bacterial Meningitis Secondary to Abscess of the Nasal Septum. http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/60/1/102[r] ...
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The Epidemiology, Management, and Outcomes of Bacterial Meningitis in Infants
... suspected meningitis typically include ampicillin (for at least the first month) and a third-generation ...suggest bacterial meningitis, the pathogen is unknown, and the Gram-stain is negative or ...
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PARTIALLY TREATED BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; THE DILEMMA CONTINUES
... Since decades, several studies have discussed the possibility that prior antibiotic treatment of bacterial meningitis may alter CSF findings and make it like aseptic meningitis findings, which could ...
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The spectrum of acute bacterial meningitis in elderly patients
... Our study shows that elderly patients are at much higher risk of developing ABM than younger adults. We also observed a change in the etiology of the disease, Neisseria meningitidis ranked first for younger patients, ...
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Hyperglycemia in bacterial meningitis: a prospective cohort study
... with bacterial meningitis has been reported to be as high as 39% in ...The meningitis population in Tai- wan differed markedly from our cohort with respect to the causative ...
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Clinical Presentation and Outcome of Bacterial Meningitis in University Hospital
... on bacterial meningitis were carried out in Children [10]-[12] and only few case reports and one in Yemen ...of bacterial meningitis with the previous nasal polypectomy and CSF leak [6] [8] ...
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In-hospital management of children with bacterial meningitis in Italy
... of bacterial menin- gitis, with a dramatic reduction in incidence documented in Countries with universal vaccination programs ...of bacterial meningitis was established in 1994; in 2004, national ...
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Role of CSF C-Reactive Protein for the Differentiation of Bacterial Meningitis from Aseptic Meningitis in Children
... detect bacterial meningitis was 67% with a positive predictive value of ...without bacterial meningitis have negative Gram stain( specificity ...
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Prognostic factors related to sequelae in childhood bacterial meningitis: Data from a Greek meningitis registry
... “Confirmed bacterial meningitis” cases were defined according to WHO case definition criteria [7,8]: children presenting with clinical symptoms of meningitis ...“Confirmed bacterial ...
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Clinical benefits of FilmArray meningitis encephalitis PCR assay in partially treated bacterial meningitis in Israel
... quired bacterial meningitis ...for bacterial pathogens (second period ...than bacterial meningitis (infectious or non-infectious); ii) neurosurgical procedures/head trauma within 2 ...
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Adverse Outcomes of Bacterial Meningitis in School-Age Survivors
... Hore, Eddie Adverse Outcomes of Bacterial Meningitis in School-Age Survivors. http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/95/5/646[r] ...
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Cerebrospinal Fluid Findings in Aseptic Versus Bacterial Meningitis
... distinguishing bacterial and aseptic ...to bacterial meningitis but does not suggest a useful threshold level of clinical ...for bacterial meningitis at var- ious thresholds remained ...
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Bacterial Meningitis: Some Epidemiologic and Clinical Factors in Diagnosis
... Bacterial Meningitis: Some Epidemiologic and Clinical Factors in Diagnosis.. VINCENT P.[r] ...
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Prevalence and antimicrobial resistance pattern of bacterial meningitis in Egypt
... 228 bacterial meningitis cases with 23% case ...with bacterial meningitis was conducted in 14 hospitals from 1998-2004 to determine the etiology and the antimicrobial susceptibility of ...
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Recurrent Bacterial Meningitis in Paediatrics
... acute bacterial meningitis, Ceftriaxone and vancomycin were administered for 14 days and he was discharged home after full clinical and laboratory ...
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Fluid therapy for acute bacterial meningitis
... with bacterial meningitis) reported all children together and found no statistically significant difference in mean serum sodium at 24 hours: MD (meq/litre) ...
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