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Global Assessment of Health Utilities Associated with Pneumococcal Disease in Adults: Targeted Literature Reviews. [PDF]

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Huang M   +9 more
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[Pneumococcal meningitis].

open access: yesTerapevticheskii arkhiv, 1987
V I, Pokrovskiĭ   +4 more
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Pneumococcal Meningitis in Children

Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, 1977
We review the clinical and laboratory features of 79 children with 83 episodes of pneumococcal meningitis over a 26-year period. The onset of illness was often severe, with convulsions occurring in 31% of the patients. The mortality was 10.8% and all deaths occurred in patients younger than 1 year of age; the death rate has dropped from 19% in the 1948
R M, Laxer, M I, Marks
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Fosfomycin in Pneumococcal Meningitis

Chemotherapy, 2009
A study has been made of 12 patients with pneumococcal meningitis with ages ranging from 12 months to 59 years. In all cases pneumococcus was isolated in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF). Seventeen pneumococci were studied for their sensitivity to fosfomycin, ampicillin and gentamicin, including their MIC.
T, Sicilia   +3 more
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Cefotaxime in pneumococcal meningitis

Infection, 1985
Forty-six consecutive patients with pneumococcal meningitis were treated with cefotaxime (CTX). Ages ranged from 1-79 years: 29 adults, six adolescents, six children and five infants. Underlying diseases were found in 38 patients (82.6%). Twenty-six patients (56.5%) were admitted in coma.
H, Lecour   +3 more
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Pneumococcal Meningitis in Adults

Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases, 1994
A retrospective study was conducted to examine the clinical features and outcome of 31 adult pneumococcal meningitis patients during the years 1981-92. The incidence was 1.0/100,000 adults/year. The case fatality rate was 16% (5/31), and in patients older than 70 years, 33% (3/9). Sequelae were seen in 29% (7/24), mostly otoneurologic symptoms.
P, Kragsbjerg, J, Källman, P, Olcén
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Pneumococcal Bacteremia and Meningitis

New England Journal of Medicine, 2018
Pneumococcal Bacteremia and Meningitis A 64-year-old man with asplenia presented with confusion, fever, and headache. Gram’s stain of the blood and CSF revealed abundant gram-positive cocci in pairs and chains.
Andres L. Mora Carpio   +1 more
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Management of pneumococcal meningitis

The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal, 2002
During the past decade antibiotic resistance among Streptococcus pneumoniae isolates has complicated the empiric approach to and treatment of pneumococcal meningitis. Standard empiric therapy for suspected bacterial meningitis for infants and children older than 1 month of age is the combination of cefotaxime or ceftriaxone and vancomycin. Treatment is
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