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The economic burden of RSV-associated illness in children aged < 5 years, South Africa 2011–2016

BMC Medicine, 2023
Background Data on the economic burden of RSV-associated illness will inform decisions on the programmatic implementation of maternal vaccines and monoclonal antibodies.
Jocelyn Moyes, Stefano Tempia, Sibongile Walaza, Meredith L. McMorrow, Florette Treurnicht, Nicole Wolter, Anne von Gottberg, Kathleen Kahn, Adam L. Cohen, Halima Dawood, Ebrahim Variava, Cheryl Cohen   +11 more
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Cryptococcal meningitis in HIV-infected patients: a longitudinal study in Cambodia. [PDF]

, 2010
To describe the frequency of diagnosis of cryptococcosis among HIV-infected patients in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, at programme entry, to investigate associated risk factors, and to determine the incidence of cryptococcal ...
Amornkul, Antinori, Chariyalertsak, Chhin, Darras-Joly, Dromer, French, Havlir, Heyderman, Jarvis, Jongwutiwes, Kong, Lortholary, Louie, Madec, Manosuthi, Micol, Mirza, Moosa, Pichith, Powderly, Senya, Singh, Sorvillo, Sungkanuparph   +24 more
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Starting ART following cryptococcal meningitis:The optimal time has yet to be defined

Southern African Journal of HIV Medicine, 2013
Ever since the public sector rollout of antiretroviral therapy (ART) in 2004, the question of the optimal time to start ART following diagnosis of an opportunistic infection has aroused controversy among South African HIV clinicians and researchers.
T A Bicanic, J N Jarvis, A Loyse, T S Harrison   +3 more
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The burden of RSV-associated illness in children aged < 5 years, South Africa, 2011 to 2016

BMC Medicine, 2023
Background Vaccines and monoclonal antibodies to protect the very young infant against the respiratory syncytial virus (RSV)-associated illness are effective for limited time periods.
Jocelyn Moyes, Stefano Tempia, Sibongile Walaza, Meredith L. McMorrow, Florette Treurnicht, Nicole Wolter, Anne von Gottberg, Kathleen Kahn, Adam L. Cohen, Halima Dawood, Ebrahim Variava, Cheryl Cohen   +11 more
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ACUTE MENINGITIS AND TUBERCULOUS MENINGITIS [PDF]

The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 1921
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Meningitis, Meninges, Meninx [PDF]

European Neurology, 2008
But meningitis has its verbal roots in the older anatomical term meninx , plural meninges . The OED tells us that meninx came from the post-classical Latin (attested about 1553 but probably earlier) whose plural form meninges is of 6th century origin.
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Pneumococcal Meningitis

Journal of the Belgian Society of Radiology, 2022
Teaching Point: Spontaneous, atraumatic pneumocephalus is a rare presentation of pneumococcal meningitis.
Kelly Di Dier, Marc Lemmerling
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A cross-sectional study measuring contact patterns using diaries in an urban and a rural community in South Africa, 2018

BMC Public Health, 2021
Background Describing contact patterns is crucial to understanding infectious disease transmission dynamics and guiding targeted transmission mitigation interventions. Data on contact patterns in Africa, especially South Africa, are limited.
Jackie Kleynhans, Stefano Tempia, Meredith L. McMorrow, Anne von Gottberg, Neil A. Martinson, Kathleen Kahn, Jocelyn Moyes, Thulisa Mkhencele, Limakatso Lebina, F. Xavier Gómez-Olivé, Floidy Wafawanaka, Azwifarwi Mathunjwa, Cheryl Cohen, the PHIRST group   +13 more
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Artificial Intelligence in Differential Diagnostics of Meningitis: A Nationwide Study

Diagnostics, 2021
Differential diagnosis between bacterial and viral meningitis is crucial. In our study, to differentiate bacterial vs. viral meningitis, three machine learning (ML) algorithms (multiple logistic regression (MLR), random forest (RF), and naïve-Bayes (NB))
Alexios-Fotios A. Mentis, Irene Garcia, Juan Jiménez, Maria Paparoupa, Athanasia Xirogianni, Anastasia Papandreou, Georgina Tzanakaki   +6 more
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Cerebrospinal fluid levels of extracellular heat shock protein 72: A potential biomarker for bacterial meningitis in children [PDF]

, 2014
Extracellular heat shock protein 72 (Hsp72) is an endogenous danger signal and potential biomarker for critical illness in children. We hypothesized that elevated levels of extracellular Hsp72 in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) of children with suspected ...
Kernie, Steven G., Lahni, Patrick M., Ma, William, Standage, Stephen W., Wheeler, Derek S., Wong, Hector R.   +5 more
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