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Serum procalcitonin in Egyptian patients with acute meningitis and a negative direct cerebrospinal fluid examination

open access: yesJournal of Infection and Public Health, 2014
Summary: Background: To reduce the morbidity and mortality related to bacterial meningitis, it is important to discriminate bacterial meningitis from aseptic meningitis during the acute phase of the disease, when the clinical symptoms are often similar.
Nadia A. Abdelkader   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Health Research Funders and Justice: Obligations to Coordinate and Counterbalance

open access: yesBioethics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Government health research funders are frequently criticized on the grounds that their distribution of resources fails to reflect a population's disease burden. These critiques do not take into account what other research funders are doing. In this paper, I argue that this is a mistake.
Joseph Millum
wiley   +1 more source

Inborn errors of immunity in children with neuroinflammation

open access: yesDevelopmental Medicine &Child Neurology, EarlyView.
Abstract Inborn errors of immunity (IEIs), an expanding group of monogenic disorders with diverse clinical manifestations, are increasingly recognized to include neuroinflammatory disease. Examples of diseases included under this umbrella are Aicardi–Goutières syndrome, deficiency of adenosine deaminase 2, familial haemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis ...
Eppie M Yiu   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Computed tomographic diagnosis and treatment of pneumolabyrinth in a mare with temporohyoid osteoarthropathy

open access: yesEquine Veterinary Education, EarlyView.
Summary Pneumolabyrinth, which is the presence of gas within the labyrinth of the inner ear, can be associated with severe peripheral vestibular signs. This report describes a case of pneumolabyrinth in a horse that presented with vestibular ataxia. An 8‐year‐old Quarter Horse mare that presented with cranial nerve VII deficits underwent a standing ...
C. A. Jamieson   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Francisella orientalis in Aquacultured Tilapia (Oreochromis spp.): A Case Work‐Up of Diagnostics and Pathologic Findings in the North Central Region (USA)

open access: yesJournal of Fish Diseases, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Tilapia (Oreochromis spp.) is an increasingly popular aquacultured fish worldwide. While tilapia enjoy a ‘hardy‐fish’ reputation among fish farmers, they are susceptible to a variety of infectious diseases that can be difficult to recognize pondside and have similarities in their gross presentations. This report describes gross and microscopic
S. E. Edmonds   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Meningitis [PDF]

open access: yes
Infectious disease trading card.Meningitis is an infection of the fluids around the spinal cord or the brain. Either viruses or bacteria cause this infection. People with viral meningitis often aren't very sick, but those with bacterial meningitis almost

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Investigation and Management of Neonates Presenting to Hospital With Fever: A Retrospective Cohort Study

open access: yesJournal of Paediatrics and Child Health, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Aim Guidelines for neonates presenting to the emergency department (ED) with fever, including fever at home, recommend a full septic work‐up and prompt administration of parenteral antibiotics. However, compliance is unknown. We sought to determine rates of guideline compliance in this population, reasons for non‐compliance and rates and ...
Patrick J. B. Walker   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Bacterial Meningitis in Childhood

open access: yes, 2011
A wide variety of pathogens cause childhood meningitis and clinical features and ­outcomes vary according to the organism. Bacterial meningitis caused by Neisseria meningitidis, Streptococcus pneumoniae and Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) is of particular importance as it has a high mortality and morbidity, has been relatively common and is ...
Sadarangani, M, Pollard, A
openaire   +3 more sources

Periodontal Medicine Rewired: Mechanisms Linking Periodontitis to Systemic Diseases

open access: yesJournal of Periodontal Research, EarlyView.
This review reorganizes decades of research in periodontal medicine into a multi‐dimensional framework, illustrating how periodontitis influences systemic health through at least seven interconnected mechanisms. ABSTRACT Periodontitis is now recognized not merely as a localized oral condition but as a systemic disease linked to over 70 communicable and
Mario Romandini   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Tumor necrosis factor-alpha and interleukin-1 beta levels in children with bacterial, tuberculous and aseptic meningitis

open access: yesThe Turkish Journal of Pediatrics, 1997
Cerebrospinal fluid levels of tumor necrosis factor-alpha and interleukin-1 beta in 78 children with nonbacterial, bacterial and tuberculous meningitis, and in 34 control subjects were analyzed in order to evaluate the involvement of these ...
M Ceyhan   +6 more
doaj  

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