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Chemical Meningitis after Spinal or Epidural Anesthesia [PDF]

Journal of Neurocritical Care, 2014
Background: Chemical meningitis results from foreign materials causing inflammation to the meninges covering the brain and spinal cord. Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) study of chemical meningitis mimics bacterial meningitis. Case Report: We report three cases
Seung Ha Lee, Myung jun Lee, Won-Joo Kim
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Escherichia coli K1 RS218 Interacts with Human Brain Microvascular Endothelial Cells via Type 1 Fimbria Bacteria in the Fimbriated State [PDF]

, 2005
Escherichia coli K1 is a major gram-negative organism causing neonatal meningitis. E. coli K1 binding to and invasion of human brain microvascular endothelial cells (HBMEC) are a prerequisite for E.
Cai, M., di Cello, F., Khan, Naveed Ahmed, Kim, K.J., Kim, K.S., Shin, S., Teng, C.H., Xie, Y.   +7 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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Unbiased Metagenomic Sequencing for Pediatric Meningitis in Bangladesh Reveals Neuroinvasive Chikungunya Virus Outbreak and Other Unrealized Pathogens. [PDF]

, 2019
The burden of meningitis in low-and-middle-income countries remains significant, but the infectious causes remain largely unknown, impeding institution of evidence-based treatment and prevention decisions.
Crawford, Emily D., de Bourcy, Charles, De Carvalho, Tiago Rodrigues, DeRisi, Joseph L., Dimitrov, Boris, Duggal, Nisha, Egger, Rebecca, Hasanuzzaman, Md, Islam, Maksuda, Juan, Yun-Fang, Kalantar, Katrina, Khan, Lillian M., Langelier, Charles, Li, Lucy M., Malaker, Roly, Mayday, Madeline Y., Rahman, Hafizur, Ramesh, Akshaya, Saha, Samir K., Saha, Senjuti, Sajib, M. S. I., Sheu, Jonathan, Tang, Jennifer, Tato, Cristina M., Wang, James, Wilson, Michael R.   +25 more
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Neutrophil extracellular traps in the central nervous system hinder bacterial clearance during pneumococcal meningitis

Nature Communications, 2019
Neutrophils are crucial mediators of host defense that are recruited to the central nervous system (CNS) in large numbers during acute bacterial meningitis caused by Streptococcus pneumoniae.
T. Mohanty, J. Fisher, Anahita Bakochi, Ariane Neumann, José Francisco Pereira Cardoso, C. Karlsson, Chiara Pavan, I. Lundgaard, B. Nilson, P. Reinstrup, J. Bonnevier, David Cederberg, J. Malmström, P. Bentzer, A. Linder   +14 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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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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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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Performance of lactate in discriminating bacterial meningitis from enteroviral meningitis

Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo, 2019
The cytological and biochemical examination of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) has been used for the presumed diagnosis of bacterial meningitis until the final microbiological results are achieved.
Renan Barros Domingues, Gustavo Bruniera Peres Fernandes, Fernando Brunale Vilela de Moura Leite, Carlos Senne   +3 more
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Bacterial Meningitis Epidemiology in Five Countries in the Meningitis Belt of Sub-Saharan Africa, 2015-2017.

Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2019
BACKGROUND The MenAfriNet Consortium supports strategic implementation of case-based meningitis surveillance in key high-risk countries of the African meningitis belt: Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Niger, and Togo.
Heidi M. Soeters, A. Diallo, B. Bicaba, Goumbi Kadadé, Assétou Y Dembélé, Mahamat A Acyl, Christelle Nikiema, A. Sadji, Alain N Poy, C. Lingani, H. Tall, Souleymane Sakande, F. Tarbangdo, F. Aké, Sarah A Mbaeyi, J. Moïsi, M. Paye, Y. Sanogo, Jeni T. Vuong, Xin Wang, O. Ronveaux, Ryan T Novak   +21 more
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