Meningitis, Viral
Subcortical Low Intensity on MR Images of Meningitis, Viral Encephalitis, and Leptomeningeal Metastasis
... in meningitis, viral encephalitis, and lepto- meningeal metastasis in our study, in addition to the diseases previously reported ...in viral encephalitis, excluding herpes en- ...meninges. ...
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Molecular investigations of viral meningitis among HIV infected adults in Accra, Ghana
... Objective: Meningitis is one of the leading causes of death among patients living with the human immunodefi- ciency virus (HIV) in sub-Saharan ...of meningitis may not be distinguished from each other, ...
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Clinical Investigation: The Presence of Viral Meningitis without Pleocytosis among Pediatric Patients
... Enteroviruses account for most viral meningitis cases—across all ages—in which the cause is recognized [2]-[4] [6]. The term “enteroviruses” addresses the transmission mode rather than the infection ...
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Trends in the Management of Viral Meningitis at United States Children’s Hospitals
... code and either an LP procedure code or a CSF culture. Although we may not have identi fi ed all potential patients, we also identi fi ed children with sus- pected meningitis based on discharge diagnosis alone. The ...
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Cerebrospinal Fluid Lactate Concentration to Differentiate Bacterial from Viral Meningitis in Children
... bacterial meningitis (BM) is essential because disease outcome depends on immediate initiation of appropriate antibiotic therapy ...acute viral meningitis (АM) is usually ...virаl meningitis ...
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Epidemics of viral meningitis caused by echovirus 6 and 30 in Korea in 2008
... the viral disease was highly suspected, and reported the demographic characteristics and clinical symptoms of the ...aseptic meningitis in ...the viral disease was sus- pected. Meningitis is ...
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Meningitis gone viral: description of the echovirus wave 2013 in Germany
... (Other viral encephalitis, not elsewhere classified; Unspecified viral encephalitis; Viral meningitis; Other viral infections of central nervous system, not elsewhere classified; ...
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Detection of herpes viruses in the cerebrospinal fluid of adults with suspected viral meningitis in Malawi
... aseptic meningitis in our cohort was lower than in Western industrialised countries, where aseptic meningitis accounts for about 50 % of acute men- ingitis ...aseptic meningitis in sub- Saharan ...
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Characterization of Lyme Meningitis and Comparison With Viral Meningitis in Children
... of viral infection (ie, posi- tive CSF, nasopharyngeal, or rectal cultures [poliovirus in rectal cultures was considered to be vaccine related and not causal for ...
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IgG index predicts neurological morbidity in patients with infectious central nervous system diseases
... bacterial meningitis, viral meningitis/meningoencephalitis and leptomeningeal metastases (LM) mainly relies on the analysis of cerebro- spinal fluid (CSF), only limited data on the prognostic value ...
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Pathogens causing meningitis and their journey in to the brain
... States viral meningitis is the cause of greater than half of all cases of ...children.(20) Viral meningitis and encephalitis occur at all stages of ...Fungal meningitis is rare and ...
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Magnetization Transfer MR Imaging in CNS Tuberculosis
... without meningitis and 15 patients with tuberculosis meningitis alone were ...with viral and pyogenic meningitis, and two patients with cryptococcal meningitis were also ...tuberculous, ...
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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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Clinical Reasoning: A 35-year-old man with 2 episodes of meningoencephalitis associated with flu-like illnesses
... (particularly viral) is often difficult when diagnosing drug-induced aseptic ...aseptic meningitis is that it typically resolves more quickly (within 5 days of drug discon- tinuation vs 1 – 2 weeks for ...
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Improving the diagnosis of meningitis due to enterovirus and herpes simplex virus I and II in a tertiary care hospital
... enteroviral meningitis not promptly diag- nosed by the usual methods received antibiotics for a few days, have undergone repeat spinal tap and have remained in hospital for longer than necessary, simply due to the ...
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Paediatric Investigators Collaborative Network on Infections in Canada (PICNIC) study of aseptic meningitis
... (EV) meningitis, 495 cases of clinical aseptic meningitis and 74 cases of possible aseptic meningitis with most cases occurring July to ...had viral culture performed, and a nucleic acid ...
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CSF Adenosine Deaminase (ADA) activity in Patients with Meningitis
... Usually the onset is acute and the temperature is elevated, from 38 to 40°C. Headache that is more severe than that associated with other febrile states is the most frequent symptom. A variable degree of lethargy, ...
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Cytokine and Cellular Inflammatory Sequence in Enteroviral Meningitis
... of viral meningitis caused by echo- virus type 30 from June to December ...enteroviral meningitis after detec- tion of the enteroviral genome in the CSF using polymerase chain reaction (PCR; Table ...
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Role of Cerebrospinal Fluid Levels of Highly Sensitive C - Reactive Protein and Lactate in Acute Meningitis
... with viral meningitis usually present with headache, fever, and signs of meningeal ...of viral meningitis and suggest the presence of encephalitis or another CNS infectious or inflammatory ...
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Mollaret Meningitis Associated With an Intraspinal Epidermoid Cyst
... Mollaret meningitis associated with epidermoid cysts revealed a feature distinct from viral Mollaret during the acute phase (Tables 1 and ...Mollaret meningitis caused by herpes simplex virus type 2 ...
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