Purulent meningitis
Original Article Correlations of prognosis of severe purulent meningitis in children after rehabilitation with serum inflammatory cytokines, humoral immunity and the expression of TLR4 before and after treatment
... Venous blood and CSF were collected from chil- dren with severe purulent meningitis. Enzyme- linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) was adopted to detect the levels of interleukin-17 (IL-17) and IL-6 in venous ...
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Serotypes of Bacteria Encountered in Childhood Purulent Meningitis in Children in Parakou (Benin) in 2011
... childhood purulent meningitis, this study leads us to distinguish two situations that may be described as paradoxes when determining different serotypes by real-time PCR ...by purulent ...
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YKL-40 Is Elevated in Cerebrospinal Fluid from Patients with Purulent Meningitis
... (i) Forty-eight patients had purulent meningitis. Thirty of these patients had known bacterial etiology; 26 patients had a positive CSF culture (median number of CSF WBC, 3,040 cells/l [range, 16 to ...
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Etiologies and Outcome of Children with Purulent Meningitis at the Yaounde Gyneco Obstetric and Pediatric Hospital (Cameroon)
... of meningitis in Africa the World Health Organization (WHO) [4] identified 22,000 meningitis cases in 14 countries in the meningitis ...bacterial meningitis in infants and children in our ...
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Purulent Meningitis as an Unusual Presentation of Staphylococcus aureus Endocarditis: A Case Report and Literature Review
... CNS, purulent meningitis, and brain abscess exists in patients with infective endocarditis; anyway their clinical manifestations are often indistinguishable from those present in the same diseases in the ...
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High-throughput sequencing of <em>16S rDNA</em> amplicons characterizes bacterial composition in cerebrospinal fluid samples from patients with purulent meningitis
... Abstract: Purulent meningitis (PM) is a severe infectious disease that is associated with high rates of morbidity and mortality. It has been recognized that bacterial infection is a major contributing ...
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BRAIN SWELLING WITH ACUTE PURULENT MENINGITIS
... A siniilar experience was noted in Case 3, also sunimiiarized in tabular form in Table III, a 4- month-old infant with H. influenzae meningitis, who deteriorated in spite of antibiotic t[r] ...
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Development of a TaqMan Array card to target 21 purulent meningitis related pathogens
... (CSF) culture method [6, 7]. However, the CSF culture method has many limitations. For instance, the proced- ure is too complex; the time for an affirmative result is too long (usually longer than 48 h); the method often ...
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RECOVERY FROM INFLUENZAL MENINGITIS WITHOUT INTRATHECAL THERAPY IN A FOUR DAY OLD INFANT
... Dowling and his associates1#{176} have recently demonstrated that large parenteral doses of penicillin can be used successfully in the treatment of certain cases of purulent meningitis w[r] ...
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Meningococcal Meningitis Presenting As Acute Cerebellar Ataxia
... Until a recent paper by Schwartz,’ describ- ing four children with purulent meningitis in whom ataxia was the prominent presenting feature, ataxia has not been reported as the presenting[r] ...
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Clinical Reasoning: A 20-year-old man with headache and double vision
... from meningitis. The specific pathogenesis of elevated ICP in Lyme meningitis is not ...in meningitis, which impairs CSF reabsorp- tion in arachnoid ...that purulent meningitis results ...
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Severe community acquired meningitis
... influenzae 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 ...
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Macrophage migration inhibitory factor in cerebrospinal fluid from patients with central nervous system infection
... with purulent meningitis of known aetiology (8,639 [3,344 to 20,600] ng/l) than in those with purulent meningitis of unknown aetiology (2,209 [1,516 to 6,550] ng/l; Mann Whit- ney test, P = ...
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Characterization of Lyme Meningitis and Comparison With Viral Meningitis in Children
... aseptic meningitis (not including Lyme disease) (Fig ...and meningitis) had equivocal Lyme serology, 2 had neurologic findings and posi- tive serology but normal CSF, 4 had no lumbar punc- ture, and 1 had ...
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Possibility of diagnosing meningitis by gas chromatography: cryptococcal meningitis
... Brooks, personal communication has shown that CSF specimens from 10 patients with pyogenic pneumococcal, meningococcal, and Haemophilus influenzae meningitis and from two patients with t[r] ...
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Characteristics of Streptococcus pseudopneumoniae Isolated from Purulent Sputum Samples
... It can be difficult to determine whether a microorganism is a respiratory pathogen or whether it is simply a respiratory tract colonizer. This is especially so in the setting of COPD, where lower respiratory tract ...
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The ladies trial: laparoscopic peritoneal lavage or resection for purulent peritonitisA and Hartmann's procedure or resection with primary anastomosis for purulent or faecal peritonitisB in perforated diverticulitis (NTR2037)
... with purulent peritonitis superior compared to sigmoidectomy, in terms of mor- tality, morbidity, quality of life, health care utilisation and associated costs (LOLA-arm)? Secondly, is HP or PA the superior ...
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Clinical review: Intrapericardial fibrinolysis in management of purulent pericarditis
... purulent material. Forgotten for 30 years, the treatment was rediscovered in 1984 by Bennett [13]. Effi cacy of fi brinolysis was also demonstrated in an experimental model of acute pericarditis in dogs [21]. ...
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ECZEMA ASSOCIATED WITH THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA AND PURULENT OTITIS MEDIA
... SUMMARY OF THE TREATMENT AND PLATELET RESPONSE IN FIVE PATIENTS WITh ECZEMA, THROMBOcYTOPENIC PURPURA, AND PURULENT OTITIS MEDIA. Ca.se 1 Case ?2 H.C.W[r] ...
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Cerebrospinal fluid cytokine and chemokine profile in patients with pneumococcal and meningococcal meningitis
... TNF-α is one of the most studied cytokine during BM and has been identified as a useful complementary tool to improve the diagnosis of meningitis, especially in cases where the CSF examination is inconclusive. ...
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