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Researchers Emphasize Importance of Vaccinating for All Meningitis Strains
Scientists at the University of Southampton have taken a significant and important step in keeping people safe from the most common form of meningitis in the UK. Meningitis B (also known as Meningococ...
Aiming For Vaccine For All Meningitis Strains
Scientists at the University of Southampton have taken a significant and important step in keeping people safe from the most common form of meningitis in the UK. Meningitis B (also known as Meningococ...
CDC panel OKs Glaxo's meningitis vaccine for at-risk infants
* Vaccine protects against bacterial meningitis, not fungal meningitis
Case count rises to 91 in fungal meningitis outbreak
At least 91 people have been infected with an unusual type of meningitis caused by contaminated steroid injections, federal health officials said Sunday, with seven deaths. They are urging anyone who...
Man whose wife died of meningitis is hospitalized for same illness
DETROIT, Oct 24 (Reuters) - A Michigan man whose wife died of meningitis after receiving injections of potentially tainted steroids is now in a hospital being treated for meningitis, his daughter said...
[Comment] A vaccine to prevent epidemic meningitis in Africa
Epidemics of meningococcal meningitis continue to occur at frequent but irregular intervals in countries of the African meningitis belt. Most of these large epidemics are caused by meningococci belong...
More Drugs Linked to Meningitis Outbreak: FDA
TUESDAY, Oct. 16 -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued warnings Monday about additional drugs produced by the specialty pharmacy at the center of the current meningitis outbreak. The FDA sai...
New meningitis B vaccine gets go-ahead
The announcement of a new meningitis vaccine has been widely reported in the papers, with the Daily Star claiming it could soon save thousands of lives in the UK. The Daily Mail predicts it will “so...
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We describe a paradoxical response involving the central nervous system in a patient with steroid-refractory tuberculous meningitis that was unresponsive to systemic corticosteroids but was improved w...
A Clear CSF is Not Always a Normal CSF : A Case Report of Pneumococcal Meningitis.
A normal initial cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) study has been traditionally used to exclude the potential diagnosis of bacterial meningitis. However, cases of pyogenic meningitis in the absence of CSF ple...
We analyzed the frequency of neoplastic meningitis in patients with acute myeloid leukemia prior to allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation at our institution. Between 1996 and 2009, cerebr...
Cerebrospinal Fluid Viscosity: A Novel Diagnostic Measure for Acute Meningitis.
INTRODUCTION:: Early diagnosis of acute meningitis has paramount importance in clinical practice because of mortality and morbidity of the disease. Examination of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) has critica...
Bladder dysfunction and urodynamic study in tuberculous meningitis.
Micturitional disturbances in tuberculous meningitis have been reported infrequently and that too without urodynamic studies. Bladder dysfunction in tuberculous meningitis is often considered secondar...
