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Frontiers in Neurology, 2011 An 80-year-old woman with rheumatoid arthritis had gait difficulties and frequent falls. MRI of the brain showed an extra-axial enhancing lesion overlying the right frontal-parietal cortex, that progressively extended to the contralateral side. This was accompanied by further decline in her functional status.
Servioli, María J. +3 more
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Fluconazole Monotherapy Is a Suboptimal Option for Initial Treatment of Cryptococcal Meningitis Because of Emergence of Resistance. [PDF]
, 2019 Cryptococcal meningitis is a lethal disease with few therapeutic options. Induction therapy with fluconazole has been consistently demonstrated to be associated with suboptimal microbiological and clinical outcomes. Exposure to fluconazole causes dynamic
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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. +25 more
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Rapidly shifting immunologic landscape and severity of SARS-CoV-2 in the Omicron era in South Africa
Nature Communications, 2023 Emergence of the Omicron BA.1/2 SARS-CoV-2 subvariants led to a wave of infection South Africa. Here, the authors use serological data from a prospective household study to characterise infection rates in the context of diverse immune histories following
Kaiyuan Sun +16 more
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International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2022 Purpose: There is limited information on SARS-CoV-2 shedding duration amongst persons living with HIV (PLWH). We hypothesised that PLWH shed SARS-CoV-2 for longer periods and at higher viral load than HIV-uninfected persons. Methods & Materials: From
S. Meiring +13 more
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Febre purpúrica brasileira: resultados preliminares da investigação etiológica
Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo, 1987 Em várias regiões do interior do Estado de São Paulo, notificou-se a partir do final de 1984 a 1986, a ocorrência de doença até então desconhecida, com características clínicas, em muitos aspectos, semelhante à meningococcemia.
K. Irino +9 more
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Diagnostics, 2021 As almost 60–70% of Invasive Pneumococcal Disease (IPD) is identified by nonculture methods in Greece, serotyping is of high importance for the better monitoring of pneumococcal serotypes due to the availability of conjugate vaccines.
Nektarios Marmaras +6 more
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Epidemiology of Cryptococcosis and Cryptococcal Meningitis in a large retrospective cohort of patients after solid organ transplantation [PDF]
, 2017 Background Cryptococcosis is the third most common invasive fungal infection in solid organ transplant (SOT) recipients. There are no nationally representative data describing the incidence, risk factors, and outcomes of cryptococcosis ...
George, Ige A +3 more
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Bacterial meningitis and tuberculous meningitis. [PDF]
BMJ, 1973 Despite the wide range of antimicrobial drugs available to day the mortality and morbidity from bacterial meningitis is disappointingly high. This disappointment is all the more poignant when one appreciates that some 75% of pyogenic meningitis in Britain results from infection by one of three organisms?namely, Neisseria meningitidis, Streptococcus ...
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