Meningitis, Bacterial
Fluid therapy for acute bacterial meningitis
... In much earlier versions the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Clinical Trials Register (www.nhmrc.gov.au) and meta-register of controlled trials (www.isrctn.com ) was searched. We attempted to contact ...
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Neuraminidase activity in bacterial meningitis
... of bacterial meningitis; however, abnormal concentrations of free CSF NANA were detected only in 17 patients with pneumococcal ...pneumococcal meningitis showing normal free CSF NANA concentrations ...
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Sensitivity and Specificity CSF Heat Shock Protein Levels in Differentiation of Bacterial Meningitis: A Cross Sectional Study: Tehran, Iran
... Bacterial meningitis is a fatal disease with high mortality and morbidity that needs emergency management ...acute bacterial meningitis is essential for earlier treatment and a good outcome ...
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Epidemiological Status of Bacterial Meningitis Disease Following the Introduction of the Meningococcal A Conjugate Vaccine in the African Meningitis Belt
... Abstract: Bacterial meningitis disease is a burden in the African meningitis ...of meningitis epidemics in ...of meningitis bacterial disease in Africa following the introduction ...
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A Study on Estimation of Cortisol levels in Cerebrospinal Fluid for differentiating Bacterial from Non-Bacterial meningitis
... neutrophilic meningitis, p value being <0.069.Only 8 patients; of bacterial meningitis showed culture ...with bacterial meningitis showing culture positive was thirty five (74%) out ...
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Recurrent Bacterial Meningitis in Paediatrics
... recurrent meningitis at any ...acquiring meningitis appears to be high (25%) and the majority of cases develop under 10 years of age ...of bacterial infections and also linked to autoimmune disorders ...
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Serum procalcitonin in bacterial & non-bacterial meningitis in children
... ng/ml. Meningitis was di- agnosed according to history, physical examination, CSF laboratory ...as bacterial men- ingitis if CSF showed bacteria in gram staining and/or cul- ture, predominantly neutrophilic ...
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Emerging pathogen, bacterial profile and sensitivity pattern of acute bacterial meningitis in a Tertiary care centre, New Delhi, India
... acute bacterial meningitis varies with time, geography and patients’ ...of meningitis are not always reliable, a laboratory support is imperative, to achieve an early diagnosis and proper ...for ...
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Predicting the Outcome of Neonatal Bacterial Meningitis
... Fig 1. Predicting outcome of infants with bacterial meningitis at 12 hours postadmission. Each branch of the predictive tree shows the remaining number of infants with adverse outcome (1) and without ...
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Complement factor H contributes to mortality in humans and mice with bacterial meningitis
... meningitis [10, 18–21]. Several experimental studies have evaluated the blocking of the complement system using antibodies to improve the outcome of pneumococcal men- ingitis [22–24]. Inhibition of complement ...
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Coexisting bacterial meningitis with urinary tract infection in children less than 5 years old in central child teaching hospital
... of bacterial meningitis and should be performed where a clinical suspicion for meningitis exists, Initial analysis of the CSF should include microscopy with gram stain, culture and measurement of ...
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Cerebrospinal fluid cytokine and chemokine profile in patients with pneumococcal and meningococcal meningitis
... pathogen strain, the host’s age and the time of the LP after infection (as it was observed in our data). Strains of N. meningitidis seem to be able to induce different cyto- kine profiles [33,34]. Considering the age of ...
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Severe community acquired meningitis
... circle) or when neurological impairment is not sensitive to antibiotic or antiviral therapies. Diagnosis is difficult: the CSF reveals a mixed composition (but could be lympho- cytic), hypoglycorrhachia and ...
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Meningitis in adult patients with a negative direct cerebrospinal fluid examination: value of cytochemical markers for differential diagnosis
... positive bacterial culture of CSF. The diagnosis of viral meningitis or meningoencephalitis was confirmed in the absence of any bacteria detectable by direct CSF examination or in bacterial cultures, ...
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Pathogens causing meningitis and their journey in to the brain
... Protozoans, Bacterial, Viral, Prionic, Fungal and post infectious diseases of Nervous ...Neurosyphilis, Bacterial meningitis, late stage of Lyme disease, Brain abscess, Neuro Borreliasis, ...
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Evaluation of the Laboratory, Epidemiological and Clinical Characteristics of Meningitis Patients Admitted to the Hospitals of Yazd from 2009 to 2013
... with meningitis has been admitted in hospitals of Yazd during the years 2009 to ...of meningitis in the patients suffering from bacterial and non-bacterial ...non-bacterial ...
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A systematic review of cases of meningitis in the absence of cerebrospinal fluid pleocytosis on lumbar puncture
... reported, meningitis in the absence of pleocytosis may occur. While bacterial organisms are most commonly implicated, it may also occur in viral or fungal ...with bacterial and fungal ...
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The dubious value of cerebrospinal fluid adenosine deaminase measurement for the diagnosis of tuberculous meningitis
... Viral meningitis/encephalitis ’ and ‘ Con- firmed TBM’ ...cryptococcal meningitis ’ and ‘ Confirmed TBM ’ categor- ...cryptococcal meningitis as ...
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Assessing the Chronic Neuropsychologic Sequelae of Human Immunodeficiency Virus–Negative Cryptococcal Meningitis by Using Diffusion Tensor Imaging
... CM was defined as either 1) isolation of Cryptococcus neoformans in one or more CSF cultures, positive CSF cryptococcal antigen titer, or positive CSF India ink and clinical features of meningitis; or 2) isolation ...
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