Viral Meningitis
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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Trends in the Management of Viral Meningitis at United States Children’s Hospitals
... with viral meningitis presenting to an ED decreased from 2005 to ...for viral meningitis were ...for viral meningitis did not have higher rates of ED revisits within 3 days ...
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Clinical Investigation: The Presence of Viral Meningitis without Pleocytosis among Pediatric Patients
... Background: Viral meningitis (VM) is mostly common among infants. Its induction by enterovi- ruses (EVM) is associated with morbidity and is primarily diagnosed by lumbar puncture, which may yield false ...
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Molecular investigations of viral meningitis among HIV infected adults in Accra, Ghana
... a viral aetiology of meningitis usu- ally arises once bacterial and fungal stains or cultures of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) are ...with meningitis, it is documented that viral meningitis ...
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Epidemics of viral meningitis caused by echovirus 6 and 30 in Korea in 2008
... aseptic meningitis, stool specimen or throat swab is preferable for the diagnosis due to false negative induced from short term appearance of enterovirus and lower viral titers in the CSF ...with ...
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Characterization of Lyme Meningitis and Comparison With Viral Meningitis in Children
... aseptic meningitis with which they ...aseptic meningitis who do not have EM, the following are key points to consider: (1) cranial neuropathy, especially periph- eral seventh nerve palsy, is strong evidence ...
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Rapid diagnosis of lymphocytic meningitis by frequency pulsed electron capture gas liquid chromatography: differentiation of tuberculous, cryptococcal, and viral meningitis
... Cerebrospinal fluid specimens from patients with tuberculous 17 cases, cryptococcal 15 cases, and viral 14 cases meningitis were analyzed by frequency-pulsed electron capture gas-liquid [r] ...
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Detection of herpes viruses in the cerebrospinal fluid of adults with suspected viral meningitis in Malawi
... suspected meningitis admitted to Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital (QECH), Blantyre, Malawi, from September through to December 2007 ...tuberculous meningitis were excluded, as were those with probable ...
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Climate variability and outbreaks of infectious diseases in Europe
... Of the diseases found to be associated with NAO indices, seven adenovirus infection, measles, Aseptic viral meningitis, Q fever, gastroenteritis, tularaemia, shigellosis and trichinosis [r] ...
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Cytokine and Cellular Inflammatory Sequence in Enteroviral Meningitis
... IL-6, IL-8, IFN-␥, IL-10, and TGF-1 concentrations in the CSF samples were determined using monoclonal antibody enzyme- linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) kits (IL-6 ELISA, IL-8 ELISA, IFN-␥ ELISA, and IL-10 ELISA; ...
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Clinical Reasoning: A 35-year-old man with 2 episodes of meningoencephalitis associated with flu-like illnesses
... have viral syndromes prior to his CNS symptoms, his onset to recovery time was more rapid than usual for viral meningitis or ...extensive viral testing came back ...
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Pathogens causing meningitis and their journey in to the brain
... of viral agents far exceeds that of infections caused by bacteria, yeast, molds, and protozoa ...summer-associated viral CNS ...known viral causes of CNS infection have been identified.(4) ...
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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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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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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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An integrated model of care for neurological infections: the first six years of referrals to a specialist service at a university teaching hospital in Northwest England
... In patients with confirmed neurological infections, altered sensorium, age and longer hospital stay were associated with poor outcome; viral meningitis was associated with good outcome T[r] ...
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Vol 12, No 1 (2018)
... of meningitis. ‘Viral meningitis’ was diagnosed when CSF showed elevated WCC (>5 lymphocytes, or any polymorphonucleocytes), with CSF chemistry (protein and glucose) within the normal ...Bacterial ...
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Spectrum of cerebrospinal fluid analysis and nervous system diseases in hospitalised patients: a hospital based prospective study from a hilly state of Himachal Pradesh in North India
... Amongst 150 patients studied, TBM was found the most common diagnosis in 30 (20%) patients followed by 8 (5.3%) patients of bacterial meningitis, 7 (4.7%) patients of viral meningitis and 1 (0.66%) ...
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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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