Infection: Meningitis
Pre-infection physical exercise decreases mortality and stimulates neurogenesis in bacterial meningitis
... of meningitis, mice that were later infected, were either housed separately in standard laboratory cages or in cages equipped with voluntary running wheels (n = ...bacterial meningitis was induced in all ...
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Diagnostic Accuracy of Presepsin (sCD14 ST) for Prediction of Bacterial Infection in Cerebrospinal Fluid Samples from Children with Suspected Bacterial Meningitis or Ventriculitis
... bacterial infection in CSF, to predict bacterial infection in comparison to the accuracy of established biomarkers like those demonstrated in biochemical analysis of ...terial meningitis or ...
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Herpes Simplex Virus Infection in Infants Undergoing Meningitis Evaluation
... with meningitis or ...HSV infection: (1) untreated hospitalized infants would develop signs of HSV infection while hospitalized given the fulminant clinical course ...
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Oral infection of mice with Salmonella entericaserovar Typhimurium causes meningitis and infection of the brain
... of infection, the role of various immune cells in the trafficking of intracellular salmonel- lae to the CNS and brain, and the role of various immune cell migration factors in this ...brain infection ...
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Staphylococcus epidermidis meningitis in the absence of a neurosurgical device secondary to catheter related bloodstream infection: a case report and review of the literature
... epidermidis infection in adults has been associated nearly exclusively with neurosurgical procedures and devices, but also with head ...of meningitis caused by coagulase-negative Staphylococcus (CoNS), all ...
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Testing for Meningitis in Febrile Well-Appearing Young Infants With a Positive Urinalysis
... Fever is a common presenting complaint in the young infant, with urinary tract infection (UTI) being the most common serious bacterial infection in this population. 1 Commonly used risk stratification ...
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Case Report Cryptococcal meningitis in an immunocompetent patient: a case report and review of the literatures
... Cryptococcal meningitis, caused by the Cryp- tococcus neoformans, a ubiquitous environ- mental fungus, is a fatal HIV-related opportu- nistic ...cryptococcal meningitis draws more and more clinicians’ ...
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(1,3) β d Glucan in Cerebrospinal Fluid for Diagnosis of Fungal Meningitis Associated with Contaminated Methylprednisolone Injections
... There are several limitations to this study. First, the sample size was relatively small, as reflected in the width of the confidence intervals around the sensitivity and specificity values. Second, the gold standard ...
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Incidence, clinical features, and implications on outcomes of neonatal late onset sepsis with concurrent infectious focus
... concurrent infection, 51 (45%) BSIs had meningitis, 36 (23%) were VAP, 21 (23%) were NEC, and 57 (28%) were ...of infection included osteomyelitis (2), septic arth- ritis (2), upper limbs cellulitis ...
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Rapid diagnosis of experimental meningitis by bacterial heat production in cerebrospinal fluid
... Bacterial meningitis requires rapid diagnosis since a delay in antimicrobial therapy results in poor outcome [1,2]. Examination of CSF is of paramount importance for the diagnosis of meningitis. ...
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Use of Lytic Bacteriophage for Control of Experimental Escherichia coli Septicemia and Meningitis in Chickens and Calves
... Kinetics of phage R multiplication in chickens inoculated intracranially with E. coli. Studying the kinetics of infection and protection when the E. coli was given by the intracranial route showed that in the ...
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Detection of West Nile Virus in Hospitalized Children with Acute Meningitis using Reverse Transcription Loop-Mediated Isothermal Amplification in Khartoum state, Sudan
... WNV infection can progress to encephalitis, meningitis, and acute flaccid paralysis and, in some cases, especially in aged and immune- compromised patients; WNV infection can be fatal or develop into ...
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Effect of delayed lumbar punctures on the diagnosis of acute bacterial meningitis in adults
... of meningitis was approximated by assuming that all adults with meningitis would be seen at this hospital (a reasonable assumption, as it is the only hospital on the penin- sula) and that ...British ...
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Shifting paradigm in brain abscess management at tertiary care centre in Nepal
... Tract hematoma, abscess cavity hematoma, extension of abscess into the ventricles, surgical site infection, meningitis, sinus thrombosis and mortality are known complications of brain abscess management. ...
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Pathogens causing meningitis and their journey in to the brain
... devastating infection of the brain called primary amebic meningoencephalitis ...fatal. Infection typically occurs when people go swimming or diving in warm freshwater places, like lakes and ...
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Haematogenous Staphylococcus aureus meningitis A 10 year nationwide study of 96 consecutive cases
... of infection was based on evident clinical signs and/or symp- toms that were later confirmed by cultivation of a bacte- rial strain with the same resistance pattern as the blood culture ...and meningitis ...
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... draining well. If removal of entire VPS catheter is required, incision at cranial site is preferable. It is must to obtain CSF sample at this time, and observe the patient for 2-3 days prior to starting oral feeds. Once ...
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State of the Art Microbiologic Testing for Community Acquired Meningitis and Encephalitis
... to meningitis and encephalitis diagnosis and to expand the number of patients with a microorganism ...causing meningitis and encephalitis received de novo clearance for use as an aid in the diagnosis of ...
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Jolt accentuation of headache: can this maneuver rule out acute meningitis?
... diseases, meningitis is a potentially dangerous and debilitating disease caused by inflammation of the membranes covering the brain and spinal ...Clinically, meningitis is defined as the pres- ence of ...
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Clinical Reasoning: A 35-year-old man with 2 episodes of meningoencephalitis associated with flu-like illnesses
... CNS infection (particularly viral) is often difficult when diagnosing drug-induced aseptic ...suspected infection. A key feature of drug-induced aseptic meningitis is that it typically resolves more ...
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