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Clinical trials for bacterial meningitis treatments are not keeping pace with the rise of resistance
New vaccines and drug treatments are urgently needed for bacterial meningitis, a devastating disease which kills or maims around a fifth of people who contract it, according to medical experts writing...
New method can screen for bacterial genes that are expressed during meningitis
Bacterial meningitis is an infection of the meninges, the protective membrane that covers the spinal cord and brain. Children, elderly patients and immunocompromised patients are at a higher risk for...
Childhood bacterial meningitis influences educational, financial achievement
Research suggests that children who become infected with bacterial meningitis have a lower educational achievement and are less likely to be economically self-sufficient in adulthood than those who do...
Childhood Meningitis Tied to Reduced Education, Employment Prospects
TUESDAY, April 23 (HealthDay News) -- Some young adults who had bacterial meningitis during childhood have less education and are less financially self-sufficient than those in the general population,...
New vaccines and drug treatments urgently needed for bacterial meningitis
New vaccines and drug treatments are urgently needed for bacterial meningitis, a devastating disease which kills or maims around a fifth of people who contract it, according to medical experts writing...
CDC panel OKs Glaxo's meningitis vaccine for at-risk infants
* Vaccine protects against bacterial meningitis, not fungal meningitis
In a study that included nearly 3,000 adults from Denmark, a diagnosis of meningococcal, pneumococcal, or Haemophilus influenzae meningitis in childhood was associated with lower educational achieveme...
A new strategy for developing meningitis vaccines
Bacterial meningitis is an infection of the meninges, the protective membrane that covers the spinal cord and brain. Children, elderly patients and immunocompromised patients are at a higher risk for...
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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...
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...
Bacterial meningitis in the United States, 1998-2007.
The rate of bacterial meningitis declined by 55% in the United States in the early 1990s, when the Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) conjugate vaccine for infants was introduced. More recent prevent...
Use of Corticosteroids and Other Adjunct Therapies for Acute Bacterial Meningitis in Adults.
Acute bacterial meningitis is associated with high morbidity and mortality despite the availability of effective antibiotics. The inflammatory response induced by bacterial products in the subarachnoi...
