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Spontaneous gram-negative bacillary meningitis in adult patients : characteristics and outcome [PDF]

, 2013
Background: Spontaneous meningitis caused by gram-negative bacilli in adult patients is uncommon and poorly characterized. Our objective is to describe and compare the characteristics and the outcome of adult patients with spontaneous gram-negative ...
Benito, Natividad, Coll Figa, Pedro, Domingo, Pere, Gurguí, Mercè, López-Contreras, Joaquín, Pomar, Virginia, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona   +6 more
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The Infectious Disease Ontology in the Age of COVID-19 [PDF]

, 2021
The Infectious Disease Ontology (IDO) is a suite of interoperable ontology modules that aims to provide coverage of all aspects of the infectious disease domain, including biomedical research, clinical care, and public health.
Babcock, Shane, Beverley, John, Cowell, Lindsay G., Smith, Barry   +3 more
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Assessment of severe malaria in a multicenter, phase III, RTS, S/AS01 malaria candidate vaccine trial: case definition, standardization of data collection and patient care. [PDF]

, 2011
BACKGROUND\ud \ud An effective malaria vaccine, deployed in conjunction with other malaria interventions, is likely to substantially reduce the malaria burden. Efficacy against severe malaria will be a key driver for decisions on implementation.
Amanda Leach, Brian Greenwood, Daniel Ansong, David Schellenberg, Jahit Sacarlal, Jennifer Evans, Johan Vekemans, Kevin Marsh, Kwaku Asante, Mary J Hamel, Nahya Salim, null null, Patricia Njuguna, Philip Bejon, Portia Kamthunzi, Samwel Gesase, Solange Soulanoudjingar, Walter Otieno, William Kabore   +18 more
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Assessment of acute headache in adults - what the general physician needs to know. [PDF]

, 2018
Headache is common. Up to 5% of attendances to emergency departments and acute medical units are due to headache. Headache is classified as either primary (eg migraine, cluster headache) or secondary to another cause (eg meningitis, subarachnoid ...
Agrawal, Cappelen-Smith, Dodick, Hoffmann, Mac Grory, Macdonald, omi, Savitz, Sheikh, Solomon   +9 more
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Capsular profiling of the Cronobacter genus and the association of specific Cronobacter sakazakii and C. malonaticus capsule types with neonatal meningitis and necrotizing enterocolitis [PDF]

, 2015
Background: Cronobacter sakazakii and C. malonaticus can cause serious diseases especially in infants where they are associated with rare but fatal neonatal infections such as meningitis and necrotising enterocolitis.
A Lehner, A Muller, A Rahman, AS Shashkov, C Iversen, C Iversen, C Whitfield, DL Daniels, E Hurrell, E Hurrell, E Jackson, E Kucerova, E Kucerova, EE Jackson, F Ramos-Morales, GI Dancer, H Kim, H Sonbol, J Caubilla-Barron, J Caubilla-Barron, J Kajimura, JR Mehall, K Butela, KA Jolley, KA Power, KG Jarvis, KG Jarvis, LL MacLean, LL MacLean, LM Willis, LS Harris, M Blažková, M Czerwicka, M Hobbs, M Scheepe-Leberkühne, MW Gilmour, N Mullane, N Navasa, NP Arbatsky, O Holy, O Holy, P. Ogrodzki, PN Danese, S Hariri, S Joseph, S Joseph, S Joseph, S Joseph, S Joseph, S Kumar, S. Forsythe, SJ Forsythe, SM Townsend, SM Townsend, T Carver, X Zogaj, Y Sun, Y Sun   +57 more
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Bacterial meningitis

Primary Care Update for OB/GYNS, 2000
With nearly 8,000 cases in the United States per year, and 2,000 deaths annually, bacterial meningitis continues to be a significant source of morbidity and mortality. The principal pathogens are Neisseria meningitidis, Streptococcus pneumoniae, group B streptococci, and Hemophilus influenzae.
Division of Internal Medicine, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, Florida, USA ( host institution ), Bartfield, Alison A ( author )   +1 more
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Genomic dissection of the 1994 Cronobacter sakazakii outbreak in a French neonatal intensive care unit [PDF]

, 2015
Background: Cronobacter sakazakii is a member of the genus Cronobacter that has frequently been isolated from powdered infant formula (PIF) and linked with rare but fatal neonatal infections such as meningitis and necrotising enterocolitis.
Dickins, B, Farbos, A, Forsythe, S, Masood, N, McNally, A, Moore, K, Paszkiewicz, K   +6 more
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Pitfalls associated with the use of molecular diagnostic panels in the diagnosis of cryptococcal meningitis [PDF]

, 2017
We report the case of a kidney transplantation patient on chronic immunosuppressive therapy presenting with subacute meningitis. The final diagnosis of cryptococcal meningitis was delayed due to 2 false-negative cryptococcal results on a molecular ...
Burnham, Carey-Ann, Dubberke, Erik, Franklin, Alexander, Lainhart, William, O\u27Halloran, Jane A, Powderly, William   +5 more
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Invasive Haemophilus influenzae Disease in Adults ≥65 Years, United States, 2011. [PDF]

, 2014
BackgroundSince the introduction of the Haemophilus influenzae serotype b vaccine, H influenzae epidemiology has shifted. In the United States, the largest burden of disease is now in adults aged ≥65 years.
Bennett, Nancy, Blain, Amy, Briere, Elizabeth, Clark, Thomas, Cohn, Amanda, Farley, Monica M, Harrison, Lee H, Lexau, Catherine, MacNeil, Jessica, Miller, Lisa, Nichols, Megin, Petit, Susan, Reingold, Arthur, Schaffner, William, Thomas, Ann, Wang, Xin   +15 more
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Effects of Biological Sex and Age on Cerebrospinal Fluid Markers—A Retrospective Observational Study

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) analysis is a key diagnostic tool for neurological diseases. To date, only a few studies have investigated in larger cohorts the effect of age and biological sex on diagnostic markers extracted from CSF. Methods For this retrospective observational study, 4163 CSF findings (2012–2020) were evaluated.
Isabel‐Sophie Hafer, Simon Faissner, Ralf Gold, Aiden Haghikia   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source