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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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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, A, Seara, A M, Miranda, J, Cordeiro   +3 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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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, Jessica M. Stempel   +1 more
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Prevention of pneumococcal meningitis

Current Infectious Disease Reports, 2002
With the success of the conjugated Haemophilus influenzae type b vaccines, Streptococcus pneumoniae has become one of the most important causes of bacterial meningitis worldwide, causing significant morbidity and mortality. Additionally, the increasing amount of resistance that this organism is developing to multiple classes of antimicrobial agents has
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Pneumococcal meningitis in infants

Brain and Development, 1985
A review and follow-up study of 21 Chinese infants who had pneumococcal meningitis showed a mortality of 23.8% and high morbidity in survivors. Severe meningitis and delay in treatment as reflected by the presence of coma, pneumonia, disseminated intravascular coagulation, and lumbar CSF protein of over 368 mg% and glucose of lower than 10 mg% at the ...
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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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PNEUMOCOCCIC MENINGITIS

American Journal of Diseases of Children, 1944
Prior to the introduction of the sulfonamide compounds pneumococcic meningitis was almost invariably fatal. With the advent of these drugs, particularly sulfapyridine and sulfadiazine, the prognosis for patients with meningitis of this type was considerably improved. The introduction of penicillin marked another advance in the treatment of this disease.
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Dexamethasone and Pneumococcal Meningitis

Annals of Internal Medicine, 2004
van de Beek, Diederik, de Gans, Jan
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PNEUMOCOCCAL MENINGITIS

The Lancet, 1977
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