Pneumococcal meningitis
INCIDENCE OF PNEUMOCOCCAL MENINGITIS IN CHILDREN LESS THAN 5 YEARS AGE IN MALAYSIA, SINGAPORE AND THAILAND: A REVIEW
... We conducted a review of published articles/conference abstracts on incidence of pneumococcal meningitis among children less than 5 years of age in Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand. Literature searches were ...
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Pneumococcal meningitis: Clinical-pathological correlations (meningene-path)
... Our study has several limitations. First, autopsy is only performed in approximately 20 % of deceased pa- tients in our cohort studies and brain autopsy was not performed in all of them. For both cohorts together we were ...
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Characterization of a pneumococcal meningitis mouse model
... in pneumococcal meningitis, We found meningeal and parenchymal infiltration, (micro)hemor- rhages, perivascular lymphocitic cuffing and perivascular bacterial overgrowth, the beginning of abscess forma- ...
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An outbreak of pneumococcal meningitis among older children (≥5 years) and adults after the implementation of an infant vaccination programme with the 13 valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine in Ghana
... confirmed pneumococcal meningitis had a serotype 35B infection, a non-PCV13 ...F pneumococcal strains were detected across five districts including Tain in weeks 3 and 5 of ...
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Effect of Experimental Pneumococcal Meningitis on Respiration and Circulation in the Rabbit
... bacterial meningitis in man have been limited by clinical variability and the necessity for immediate ...of pneumococcal meningitis, we studied respiration and circulation in 25 anesthetized New ...
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Quantitative Proteomics of Cerebrospinal Fluid in Paediatric Pneumococcal Meningitis
... including meningitis, pneumonia and ...therapy, pneumococcal meningitis remains a life-threatening ...bacterial meningitis symptoms but negative ...
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Dramatic reduction of mortality in pneumococcal meningitis
... in pneumococcal meningitis there is an increasing chance to anticipate and detect these com- plications, which enables physicians to take adequate measures ...in pneumococcal meningitis have ...
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Early Vancomycin Therapy and Adverse Outcomes in Children With Pneumococcal Meningitis
... Our results are subject to limitations inherent in ret- rospective studies. First, because of our retrospective study design, we could only analyze data that was avail- able in medical and laboratory records. In ...
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Delayed cerebral thrombosis complicating pneumococcal meningitis: an autopsy study
... after pneumococcal meningitis showed inflammation in the meninges and blood vessels with extensive infarction and ...in meningitis cases as compared to controls, but no difference between DCT and ...
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Gene expression in cortex and hippocampus during acute pneumococcal meningitis
... of pneumococcal meningitis to assess gene expression profiles in cortex and hippocampus at 22 and 44 hours after infection and in controls at 22 h after mock- infection with ...
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Vitamin B6 reduces hippocampal apoptosis in experimental pneumococcal meningitis
... neuronal damage observed in pneumococcal meningitis [2,6,8]. The neurotoxic effect of the intermediates 3-hydroxykynurenine and 3-hydroxyanthanilic acid in- volves the generation of superoxide and hydrogen ...
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Daptomycin in experimental murine pneumococcal meningitis
... multidrug-resistant pneumococcal men- ingitis ...pneumococcal meningitis. In this study, we used a murine model of pneumococcal meningitis to compare the activity of daptomycin with ...
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Clinical outcome of pneumococcal meningitis during the emergence of pencillin resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae: an observational study
... for pneumococcal meningitis in developing countries, especially in settings where antibiotic resistance is ...coccal meningitis and lower incidence of severe hearing loss in children with ...
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Prolonged Pneumococcal Meningitis Due to an Organism With Increased Resistance to Penicillin
... penicillin is presented. The patient had normal nnmunity and no demonstrable sequestered focus of infection but failed to respond to appropriate doses of intravenous penicillin. Treatmen[r] ...
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Bactericidal versus Bacteriostatic Antibiotic Therapy of Experimental Pneumococcal Meningitis in Rabbits
... bactericidal vs. bacteriostatic antimicrobial agents in the therapy of meningitis 112 animals were infected with one of two strains of type III Streptococcus pneumoniae. Both strains were exquisitely sensitive to ...
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Cross reactive monoclonal antibodies for diagnosis of pneumococcal meningitis
... Our assays to determine the level of antigen detected by the antibodies under the defined conditions of this study indicate that 107 live or heat-killed pneumococci per ml, 4 ,ug of lysa[r] ...
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Changes in Molecular Epidemiology of Streptococcus pneumoniae Causing Meningitis following Introduction of Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccination in England and Wales
... of pneumococcal meningitis declined, cases due to non-PCV7 serotypes increased following PCV7 ...of pneumococcal meningitis although these serotypes were also re- ported to cause ...
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Neuraminidase activity in bacterial meningitis
... bacterial meningitis; however, abnormal concentrations of free CSF NANA were detected only in 17 patients with pneumococcal ...with pneumococcal meningitis showing normal free CSF NANA ...
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MENINGITIS CAUSED BY STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE: A REVIEW
... initiating pneumococcal meningitis is ...cause meningitis make possible the interaction with the host cell via their own bacterial surface proteins 17 ...important pneumococcal adherence ...in ...
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Severe community acquired meningitis
... purulent meningitis, has been noted; there is probably a similar effect for pneumococcal meningitis, but cannot be evalu- ated from the available data for meningococcal ...a meningitis that is ...
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