Here's what bacterial meningitis is, how it's different from viral and other types of meningitis, and what treatment can be ...

Review of hospital discharge ICD-9 codes identified 685 patients younger than 6 months of age discharged with a diagnosis of UTI or meningitis during the study period; 299 infants were excluded ...

Conclusions In infants younger than 90 days with FWS, performing CSF analysis for ruling out bacterial meningitis must be strongly considered in not well-appearing infants and in those ≤21 days old.

However, treatment is routinely commenced based on CSF findings prior to microbiological results. This study determined the predictive value of CSF parameters for diagnosing bacterial and viral ...

A 15-year-old girl, Kyiiru Faustina from Korro Gberkuo, has miraculously survived a severe case of Cerebrospinal Meningitis ...

svp.aphp.fr Background Clinical decision rules (CDRs) could be helpful to safely distinguish between bacterial and aseptic meningitis (AM). Objective To compare the performance of two of these CDRs ...

Dr Sebastian Ngmenenso Sandaare, a National Democratic Congress (NDC) Member of Parliament (MP) for Daffiama Bussie Issa, has ...

When it comes to bacterial infections, bacterial meningitis may not be the most common one, but it is certainly among the most serious. "The most worrisome part of bacterial meningitis is the ...

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Concern after the death of the 20-year-old student in Patras - The risk of contracting meningococcal disease is increased ...

Febrile infants aged 22 to 60 days were less likely to be hospitalized or receive antibiotics after the AAP published updated ...