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Adult Work Ability Following Diagnosis of Bacterial Meningitis in Childhood.
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Current Treatment Options in Neurology, 2010
Meningococcal meningitis (MM) is the most common presentation of meningococcal disease and an important cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. When MM is associated with shock, early recognition and treatment of shock is essential. No investigation should delay starting antibiotics once the diagnosis is suspected. Corticosteroids can be started at
Ricardo Garcia Branco, Robert C. Tasker
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Meningococcal meningitis (MM) is the most common presentation of meningococcal disease and an important cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. When MM is associated with shock, early recognition and treatment of shock is essential. No investigation should delay starting antibiotics once the diagnosis is suspected. Corticosteroids can be started at
Ricardo Garcia Branco, Robert C. Tasker
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Intrafamilial meningococcal meningitis
European Journal of Pediatrics, 1980Two couples of sibs presented with meningococcal meningitis. In both families, immediate preventive measures were not taken due to a negative cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) smear in the first case from Family A, and a negative CSF smear and culture in the first case from Family B. All the children were treated successfully.
D. Merzbach, Y. Naveh
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An overview of meningitis and meningococcal septicaemia
Emergency Nurse, 2009This article provides an overview of meningitis and meningococcal septicaemia, which can have devastating effects. Nurses working in acute and primary care need to be able to recognise the causes and symptoms of these conditions, and have up-to-date knowledge of treatment, prevention and potential after-effects.
Claire Donovan, Jane Blewitt
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NEONATAL MENINGOCOCCAL MENINGITIS
Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health, 1977To the Editor.— Jones et al reported a case of fatal Neisseria meningitidis meningitis in a 2-week-old female infant associated with colonization of the mother's cervix (at 36 weeks' gestation) and throat (postpartum) with the same organism (236:2652, 1976).
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Journal of the American Medical Association, 1937
Since 1931 there have been at the Harriet Lane Home twenty-eight cases of infection with the suipestifer bacillus. Almost all the patients were Negro children. Only three deaths occurred. The source of the infection is yet unknown, and it is interesting that several of the patients were nursing infants.
M. M. Ravitch, J. A. Washington
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Since 1931 there have been at the Harriet Lane Home twenty-eight cases of infection with the suipestifer bacillus. Almost all the patients were Negro children. Only three deaths occurred. The source of the infection is yet unknown, and it is interesting that several of the patients were nursing infants.
M. M. Ravitch, J. A. Washington
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The Diagnosis of Meningococcal Meningitis
JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1987To the Editor.— That the presence of petechiae is a useful predictor of meningococcal meningitis, 1 differentiating it from other types of purulent meningitis, validates one of the earliest names of the disease, "petechial fever." Petechiae associated with meningococcal meningitis occur during the meningococcemic stage and are caused by the plugging ...
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East African medical journal, 1996
Meningococcal meningitis has been recognised as serious problem for almost 200 years. In Africa the disease occurs in epidemics periodically during the hot and dry weather in the "meningitis belt" and in east Africa, which is outside this belt the epidemics tend to occur during the cold and dry months. The infection is mainly transmitted from person to
Bhatt, KM,, Bhatt, SM,, Mirza, NB
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Meningococcal meningitis has been recognised as serious problem for almost 200 years. In Africa the disease occurs in epidemics periodically during the hot and dry weather in the "meningitis belt" and in east Africa, which is outside this belt the epidemics tend to occur during the cold and dry months. The infection is mainly transmitted from person to
Bhatt, KM,, Bhatt, SM,, Mirza, NB
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Atypical presentation of meningococcal meningitis
Journal of Infection, 1986We describe a case of meningococcal meningitis which presented as low-grade aseptic meningitis in an immunocompetent adult. Neisseria meningitidis Group B was isolated from cerebrospinal fluid in small numbers on two occasions 5 days apart, while blood cultures remained negative.
Y. Mahida, M. Noone
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