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Title: Enterovirus 75 and aseptic meningitis, Spain, 2005.(Letter to the editor)
Author: Ana Avellon
Publication: Emerging Infectious Diseases (Magazine/Journal)
Date: October 1, 2006
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Volume: 12Issue: 10Page: 1609(3)

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Title: Meningitis, Sinus Thrombosis and Abscess of the Brain : With Appendices on Lumbar Puncture and Its Uses and Diseases of the Nasal Accessory SinusesPublisher: London : H.K. LewisPublication date: 1911Subjects: MeningitisSinus Thrombosis, IntracranialBrain AbscessNotes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be numerous typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Family Practice News, published by International Medical News Group on September 1, 2003. The length of the article is 560 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Cochlear implants raise meningitis risk 30-fold: vaccinate against pneumococcus.(Children's Health)
Author: Heidi Splete
Publication: Family Practice News (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 1, 2003
Publisher: International Medical News Group
Volume: 33Issue: 17Page: 62(1)

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This digital document is an article from Pediatric News, published by International Medical News Group on October 1, 2002. The length of the article is 949 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Dust off your knowledge of aseptic meningitis. (Bacterial Meningitis Less Common Now).
Author: Miriam E. Tucker
Publication: Pediatric News (Magazine/Journal)
Date: October 1, 2002
Publisher: International Medical News Group
Volume: 36Issue: 10Page: 12(2)

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This digital document is an article from Family Practice News, published by International Medical News Group on December 1, 2005. The length of the article is 446 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Pneumococcal meningitis dips in younger, not older, patients.(News)
Author: Sherry Boschert
Publication: Family Practice News (Magazine/Journal)
Date: December 1, 2005
Publisher: International Medical News Group
Volume: 35Issue: 23Page: 4(1)

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This digital document is an article from Emerging Infectious Diseases, published by Thomson Gale on June 1, 2007. The length of the article is 2472 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Meningitis serogroup W135 outbreak, Burkina Faso, 2002.(DISPATCHES)(Clinical report)
Author: Nicolas Nathan
Publication: Emerging Infectious Diseases (Magazine/Journal)
Date: June 1, 2007
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Volume: 13Issue: 6Page: 920(4)

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This digital document is an article from Family Practice News, published by International Medical News Group on August 15, 2001. The length of the article is 819 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Answering Some of the Tough Questions About Meningitis.(Brief Article)
Author: Betsy Bates
Publication: Family Practice News (Magazine/Journal)
Date: August 15, 2001
Publisher: International Medical News Group
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This digital document is an article from Emerging Infectious Diseases, published by Thomson Gale on August 1, 2006. The length of the article is 1106 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Echovirus 13 aseptic meningitis, Brazil.(Letter to the editor)
Author: Claudete I. Kmetzsch
Publication: Emerging Infectious Diseases (Magazine/Journal)
Date: August 1, 2006
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Volume: 12Issue: 8Page: 1289(3)

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Chapters: 2009-2010 West African Meningitis Outbreak, 2008-09 Malian Première Division, 2009-10 Malian Première Division, Mali at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 22. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The 2009-2010 West African meningitis outbreak is an epidemic of bacterial meningitis which has been occurring in Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, and Nigeria since January 2009, an annual risk in the African meningitis belt. A total of 13,516 people have been infected with meningitis, and 931 have died. Nigeria has been the most adversely affected, with over half of the total cases and deaths occurring in the nation. The WHO reported Mar 27 that 1,100 had died and there were 25,000 suspected cases. It is the worst outbreak in the region since 1996, and a third of the world's emergency vaccine stockpile for the bacterial form has been consumed. The GAVI Alliance has been trying to secure more vaccines. Demography of meningococcal meningitis. meningitis belt epidemic zones sporadic cases onlyWest Africa is struck by an annual meningitis epidemic, usually affecting between 25,000 and 200,000 inhabitants. However, the current epidemic has been the deadliest outbreak since 1996. That year meningitis infected over 100,000 people and killed 10,000 during a three-month period. According to doctorswithoutborders.org, Up to 400 vaccination teams of five people each immunized thousands of people every day in the region for a few weeks. In total, 2.8 million people were vaccinated in Zinder, Maradi, and Dosso regions in Niger, and 4.5 million people in Katsina, Jigawa, Bauchi, Kebbi, Sokoto, Niger, Zamfara, Kaduna, and Gombe States in Nigeria. Vaccination campaigns continue at some sites in Nigeria for a total of 255,000 people. The outbreak has affected fou...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=21987093 ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Family Practice News, published by International Medical News Group on February 1, 2004. The length of the article is 642 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Don't delay drugs in adult bacterial meningitis; a big factor in mortality.(News)
Author: Bruce Jancin
Publication: Family Practice News (Magazine/Journal)
Date: February 1, 2004
Publisher: International Medical News Group
Volume: 34Issue: 3Page: 15(1)

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Streptococcus pneumoniae remains the leading cause of bacterial meningitis. While a new vaccine against this organism is now available, its impact on disease is not yet known. Strategies to guide the evaluation of patients and the treatment of antibiotic-resistant strains can help to improve outcomes in this dangerous disease.

Despite diagnostic and therapeutic advances, the outcome for patients with community-acquired bacterial meningitis is often unfavorable. Streptococcus pneumoniae is currently the most common cause of bacterial meningitis in both children and adults in the United States and Canada. Unfortunately, the estimated mortality from pneumococcal meningitis is approximately 20%, higher than for any other bacterial etiology.

Bench research has helped to elucidate the pathogenesis and pathophysiology of pneumococcal meningitis and may lead to new therapeutic strategies. Clinical research efforts have also been fruitful, helping to resolve management-related controversies, including the role of screening head computed tomography (CT) scans, the impact of antibiotic timing on outcome, and the choice of empiric antibiotics in this era of penicillin resistance.

In the preantibiotic era, virtually all patients with bacterial meningitis died. The introduction of antibiotics brought a substantial reduction in the number of fatal cases. In the 21st century, approximately 25% of adults with bacterial meningitis still die of their disease, and at least 10% are left with a persistent neurologic deficit.

Over the past decade, two important epidemiologic trends have influenced the approach to patients with suspected bacterial meningitis. One was a decline in invasive Haemophilus influenzae disease. A multistate surveillance study of bacterial meningitis occurring in 1986 in the United States identified H. influenzae as the pathogen in 47% of cases overall and 70% of those among children under five years old. H. influenzae type b conjugate vaccine was subsequently licensed for use in children 18 months of age and two months of age in 1987 and 1990, respectively. A second surveillance study of cases in 1995 identified H. influenzae as responsible for only 7% of cases overall, with only three cases reported among children under five years old (none of whom had received the vaccine). This 94% decline in the incidence of H. influenzae meningitis resulted in a marked decline in meningitis in children less than five years old and a shift in the median age of patients with bacterial meningitis from 15 months in 1986 to 25 years in 1995. With the virtual elimination of H. influenzae meningitis, S. pneumoniae has become the most common cause of bacterial meningitis among North Americans of all age groups beyond the neonatal period. Routine immunization of infants and children with the newly-approved pneumococcal heptavalent conjugate vaccine may result in a similar decrease in the incidence of pneumococcal meningitis.

The second epidemiologic trend was a dramatic global increase in infection with antibiotic-resistant strains of S. pneumoniae. The first case report of infection from a penicillin-resistant strain was in 1967; meningitis from such a strain was described in 1974. A sustained problem of clinically significant community-acquired infections in immunocompetent hosts with highly resistant strains of S. pneumoniae was described in South Africa in 1977. Over the past decade, there has been a worldwide increase in the incidence of infection due to S. pneumoniae resistant to penicillin and other beta-lactam antibiotics. In the United States, the prevalence of antibiotic-resistant strains of S. pneumoniae is as high as 35%, depending on the geographic region and age group examined. In a 1994 study from metropolitan Atlanta, for example, S. pneumoniae isolates from children and adults with invasive pneumococcal infection displayed significant levels of resistance to both penicillin (25% overall, 7% high-level) and cefotaxime (9% ov ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Internal Medicine News, published by International Medical News Group on November 15, 2003. The length of the article is 666 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Delaying bacterial meningitis therapy can be fatal; start antibiotics before diagnostic tests.
Author: Bruce Jancin
Publication: Internal Medicine News (Magazine/Journal)
Date: November 15, 2003
Publisher: International Medical News Group
Volume: 36Issue: 22Page: 1(2)

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Title: Steroid enhances treatment of bacterial meningitis. (Death Rate Cut in Half in Adults).
Author: Miriam E. Tucker
Publication: Internal Medicine News (Magazine/Journal)
Date: December 1, 2002
Publisher: International Medical News Group
Volume: 35Issue: 23Page: 7(1)

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Title: Meningitis incidence rising among teens, young adults. (24% of Cases in 15- to 24-Year-olds).
Author: Erik L. Goldman
Publication: Family Practice News (Magazine/Journal)
Date: December 1, 2002
Publisher: International Medical News Group
Volume: 32Issue: 23Page: 31(1)

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This digital document is an article from Journal of Neuroscience Nursing, published by American Association of Neuroscience Nurses on April 1, 2004. The length of the article is 3078 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: 2-year-old with tuberculous meningitis: a case study.
Author: Siobhan Geary
Publication: Journal of Neuroscience Nursing (Refereed)
Date: April 1, 2004
Publisher: American Association of Neuroscience Nurses
Volume: 36Issue: 2Page: 90(5)

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