[20] If an infant was attended more than once within ... the child within an hour of arriving at the PED. Bacterial meningitis: detection of a bacterial pathogen in the CSF (with or without ...

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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.

Founded in 2010 and administered by a six-strong Board of Trustees, the Meningitis Foundation Aotearoa New Zealand strives to ...

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 ...

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 ...

Many clinicians do not consider neurologic complications of the flu when discussing vaccination or treatment of influenza ...

The parents of a young boy with meningitis feel let down by the care they are receiving. Rebecca Kennedy’s 10-year-old son ...

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

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