Neonatal pneumococcal meningitis
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acute disseminated encephalomyelitis following pneumococcal meningitis infection
introduction acute disseminated encephalomyelitis (adem) is an acute inflammatory and demyelinating disease of the central nervous system, resulting in various neurological symptoms. usually, the disease appears following vaccination or systemic viral infections. in rare cases, the disease appears following pneumococcal infections. case presentation the patient was a 27 year-old man who was ref...
متن کاملNeonatal meningitis
Twelve years ago an annotation was published in Archives of Disease in Childhood regarding the antibiotic treatment of suspected neonatal meningitis. The authors recommended the use of cephalosporins rather than chloramphenicol and advocated intraventricular aminoglycoside treatment in selected cases. They noted the absence of clinical trials with third generation cephalosporins that showed an ...
متن کاملNeonatal meningitis.
Some of the main features of neonatal meningitis, studied in a defined population of infants, are reviewed. The incidence rate was twenty-six cases per 100 000 live-births. The case fatality rate was 43%. Gram-negative intestinal bacilli were the commonest infecting organisms. Streptococci accounted for an important minority of cases. It is stressed that neonatal meningitis usually presents as ...
متن کاملNeonatal meningitis
in neonates than any other age group.1 In spite of considerable advances in antimicrobial treatment, neonatal meningitis remains a scourge with a high mortality and frequent permanent neurological sequelae. The causative agents of neonatal sepsis vary between geographical areas and with time in any particular locality. In North America and Europe, the prevalent bacterial agents of early-onset n...
متن کاملNeonatal meningitis.
OBJECTIVE To determine the prevalent bacterial agents of neonatal meningitis and their antibiotic susceptibility in a referral intensive care unit in Assir Central Hospital, Saudi Arabia, during the years 1993-1998. METHODS Records of newborn infants with positive cerebrospinal fluid culture during the period were retrospectively studied. RESULTS There were 1473 nursery admissions, of which...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Open Journal of Bacteriology
سال: 2020
ISSN: 2640-8007
DOI: 10.17352/ojb.000015