Tag: meningitis

Originally published by Harvard Health. What Is It? Meningitis is an inflammation of coverings (meninges) of the brain and spinal ...

1. N. meningitidis is a bacterium responsible for meningitis, bacteremia, and pneumonia, with potentially lethal and long term sequelae. 2. ...

1. For patients with cryptococcal meningitis and AIDS not previously treated with antiretrovirals, survival was better in the group starting ...

Image: PD  In this section, we will highlight the key high-impact studies, updates, and analyses published in medicine during the ...

Image: PD 1. People living with HIV/AIDS had a 10 times higher relative risk of developing invasive meningococcal disease.  Evidence ...

Image: PD 1. RSV-positive infants were significantly less likely to have an SBI than those who tested negative (7% vs. ...

Image: PD 1. A Bacterial Meningitis Score of 0 accurately identified all children with aseptic meningitis in the study’s validation group.  2. ...

Image: PD Exserohilum rostratum 1. MRI screening of patients receiving an injection of contaminated methylprednisone indicated that 21% had a clinically ...

Image: PD/CDC 1. In the treatment of cryptococcal meningitis, induction with combination antifungal therapy (amphotericin B and flucytosine) demonstrated better ...

Image: CC/L. academia 1. Treatment with dexamethasone reduces morbidity and mortality in adults with bacterial meningitis 2. There is no significant ...