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Correlation between CSF Glucose Level and Outcome on Adult Patients with Meningitis [PDF]

, 2008
Background: Meningitis is an inflammatory response to infection of leptomeningeal cells and subarachnoid space. The severity of the inflammation could be reflected on the CSF glucose level.
Sari, Pramita
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Meningococcal Meningitis in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Review [PDF]

, 2022
The scourge of Meningococcal Meningitis in the Sub-Saharan African nations is well known. This review paper focuses on this very important topic and describes the symptoms, diagnoses, and available vaccines for the same.
Raysoni, Amit U., Amit U. Raysoni
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Meningococcal purpura fulminans and severe myocarditis with clinical meningitis but no meningeal inflammation: a case report

BMC Infectious Diseases, 2019
Background During fulminant meningococcal septicaemia, meningococci are often observed in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) although the patients have frequently no meningeal symptoms.
Mehdi Hage-Sleiman, Nicolas Derre, Charlotte Verdet, Gilles Pialoux, Olivier Gaudin, Patricia Senet, Muriel Fartoukh, Mathieu Boissan, Marc Garnier   +8 more
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Early diagnosis model for meningitis supports public health decision making.

, 2011
OBJECTIVE: To develop a predictive model for rapid differential diagnosis of meningitis and meningococcal septicaemia to support public health decisions on chemoprophylaxis for contacts.
Ejidokun, Oluwatoyin O, Meltzer, Margie, Neville Q. Verlander, Fraser, Graham, Meltzer, M, Oluwatoyin O. Ejidokun, Rehman, Yasmin, Verlander, Neville Q, Ninis, Nelly, Margie Meltzer, Nelly Ninis, Muir, Peter, Fraser, G, Verlander, NQ, Rehman, Y, Close, RM, James M. Stuart, Graham Fraser, Peter Muir, Muir, P, Stuart, James M, Stuart, JM, Rebecca M. Close, Yasmin Rehman, Close, Rebecca M, Ejidokun, OO   +25 more
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Social Behavior and Meningococcal Carriage in British Teenagers

, 2006
Understanding predisposing factors for meningococcal carriage may identify targets for public health interventions. Before mass vaccination with meningococcal group C conjugate vaccine began in autumn 1999, we took pharyngeal swabs from ?14,000 UK ...
MacLennan, J., MacLennan, Jenny, Neal, K., Andrews, Nick, Kafatos, G, Cameron, J. Claire, J. Claire Cameron, Maiden, Martin C J, Kafatos, George, Keith Neal, Cann, Kathy, Evans, M.R., MacLennan, J, Cann, K, Kafatos, G., Cameron, JC, Roberts, Richard, Richard Roberts, Evans, MR, Nick Andrews, Martin C.J. Maiden, James M. Stuart, Evans, Meirion R., Neal, K, David N. Baxter, Maiden, MCJ, Stuart, J.M., Baxter, David N., Roberts, R., Cameron, J.C., Andrews, N., Maiden, M.C.J., Jenny MacLennan, Meirion R. Evans, George Kafatos, Kathy Cann, Andrews, N, Stuart, JM, Cann, K., Roberts, R, Baxter, DN, Stuart, James M., Baxter, D.N., Neal, Keith   +43 more
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Bacterial Meningitis in Brazil: Baseline Epidemiologic Assessment of the Decade Prior to the Introduction of Pneumococcal and Meningococcal Vaccines.

PLoS ONE, 2013
BackgroundBacterial meningitis is associated with significant burden in Brazil. In 2010, both 10-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine and meningococcal capsular group C conjugate vaccine were introduced into the routine vaccination schedule. Haemophilus
Luciano Cesar Pontes Azevedo, Cristiana M Toscano, Ana Luiza Bierrenbach   +2 more
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Vaccination for girls and women across the life course: Evidence‐based recommendations for clinical practice and policy

International Journal of Gynecology &Obstetrics, EarlyView.
Abstract Vaccination across the life course is a cornerstone of preventive health care for girls and women. Although WHO recommends completion of essential vaccines by adolescence, global coverage remains suboptimal. Vaccine‐preventable diseases—including HPV‐related cancers, vaginal, vulvar, anal, oropharyngeal, influenza, pertussis, hepatitis B ...
Hema Divakar, Fionnuala M. McAuliffe, Gelila Goba, Chiara Benedetto, Méabh N. Bhuinneáin, Suvarna Khadilkar, Marisa Labovsky, Michael Abou‐Dakn, Eytan R. Barnea, Agnaldo Lopes da Silva‐Filho, Elizabete Argale, Andrea Genazzani, Diana Ramos, Dharmintra Pasupathy   +13 more
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Vaccine prevention of meningococcal disease in Africa: Major advances, remaining challenges

Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics, 2018
Africa historically has had the highest incidence of meningococcal disease with high endemic rates and periodic epidemics. The meningitis belt, a region of sub-Saharan Africa extending from Senegal to Ethiopia, has experienced large, devastating ...
Mustapha M. Mustapha, Lee H. Harrison
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Trained Immunity in Childhood Vaccination

Acta Paediatrica, Volume 115, Issue 11, Page 2402-2413, November 2026.
Trained immunity as an emerging concept in paediatric vaccinology. Trained immunity links vaccine stimuli through epigenetic and metabolic reprogramming to enhanced innate immune cell function, thereby strengthening protection against diverse pathogens while promoting adaptive immune responses through more efficient antigen presentation and co ...
ChenRongRong Cai, Lubnaa Hossenbaccus, Eva Kaufmann   +2 more
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Seasonal upsurge of pneumococcal meningitis in the Central African Republic [version 2; peer review: 1 approved, 2 approved with reservations]

Wellcome Open Research, 2019
A high incidence of bacterial meningitis was observed in the Central African Republic (CAR) from December 2015 to May 2017 in three hospitals in the northwest of the country that are within the African meningitis belt.
Thomas Crellen, V. Bhargavi Rao, Turid Piening, Joke Zeydner, M. Ruby Siddiqui   +4 more
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