نتایج جستجو برای: recurrent bacterial meningitis

تعداد نتایج: 344589  

Journal: :medical journal of islamic republic of iran 0
ali zamani pediatric department, vali-asr hospital, valises reproductive health research center, tehran, i.r. iran. fatemeh zamani

background : meningitis is more common during the neonatal period than other periods of life and has a prevalence of one in 1000 live births. the similarity of its clinical manifestations with other infectious diseases makes it difficult to diagnose. the aim of the current study was to determine the relationship between age, sex, clinical signs and symptoms and laboratory test results of newbor...

2014
Yong-Juan Liu Li-Hua Shao Qian Wang Jian Zhang Rui-Ping Ma Hai-Hong Liu Xiao-Meng Dong Li-Xian Ma

Nosocomial bacterial meningitis requires timely treatment, but what is difficult is the prompt and accurate diagnosis of this disease. The aim of this study was to assess the potential role of decoy receptor 3 (DcR3) levels in the differentiation of bacterial meningitis from non-bacterial meningitis. A total of 123 patients were recruited in this study, among them 80 patients being with bacteri...

M KEYHANI,

Despite recent innovations in the laboratory diagnosis of bacterial from nonbacterial meningitis, solid data-necessary for early determination of bacterial meningitis (BM) before organism growth in the culture medium-are missing. Therefore cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) lactate levels were evaluated as a possible means of differentiating the two clinical entities. This was a retrospective study....

Babak Karimi, Fateme Khorsandi Gholamreza Khademi, Hossein Akhavan

Meningitis is an acute inflammation of the protective membranes covering the brain and spinal cord, which are known as the meninges. This infection may be caused by Streptococcus pneumonia bacteria. In this study, we presented the case of a female newborn with meningitis secondary to Streptococcus pneumonia. Her birth weight and height were normal. After 24 hours of birth, the neonate was diagn...

Journal: :archives of clinical infectious diseases 0
mohammad motamedifar department of bacteriology and virology, school of medicine, shiraz university of medical sciences, shiraz, ir iran; shiraz hiv/aids research center, shiraz university of medical sciences, shiraz, ir iran hadi sedigh ebrahim-saraie department of bacteriology and virology, school of medicine, shiraz university of medical sciences, shiraz, ir iran; department of bacteriology and virology, school of medicine, shiraz university of medical sciences, shiraz, ir iran. tel: +98-9368829763, fax: +98-7132304356 davood mansury department of bacteriology and virology, school of medicine, shiraz university of medical sciences, shiraz, ir iran iraj nikokar laboratory of microbiology and immunology of infectious diseases, paramedicine faculty, guilan university of medical sciences, rasht, ir iran zahra hashemizadeh professor alborzi clinical microbiology research center, shiraz university of medical sciences, shiraz, ir iran

results out of 2229 suspected meningitis cases, 255 (11.4%) were detected as positive culture. most of the isolates were gram-positive cocci, which 116 (45.5%) were staphylococcus epidermidis, and 20 (7.8%) identified as streptococcus spp. among gram-negative isolates, escherichia coli and acinetobacter spp., each with 19 isolates (5.9%), were predominant. overall, the most effective antibiotic...

Journal: :caspian journal of internal medicine 0
seyed mohammad alavi shahram shokri

background: previous studies have demonstrated the value of serum procalcitonin (pct) as a marker of bacterial infection, as well as the rapid decrease in its concentration with appropriate antibiotic treatment. the aim of this study was to determine the variation in serum pct levels over time during the treatment of acute bacterial meningitis (abm) in adults. methods: in this prospective analy...

Journal: :مجله بین المللی علوم آزمایشگاهی 0
mahmood vakili zahra rostami mohsen mirzaei

background and aims: since the epidemiological, clinical and experimental characteristics of meningitis are different for various locations, this study was conducted to investigate the characteristics of meningitis patients admitted to hospitals of yazd in the 2009 to 2013. materials and methods: in this cross-sectional and descriptive study, all 261 patients with meningitis were considered in ...

Journal: :acta medica iranica 0
p. tabatabaie . s. sayahtaheri. a. siadati o. alizad

results of a seven year (april 1985 to march 1992) prospoective study of bacterial meningitis in 189 infants and children admitted to our center indicate that: 1) tiie gram-negative bacilli, especially klebsiella species, are the leading cause of bacterial meningitis in neonates and young infants (

Journal: :iranian journal of child neurology 0
azita tavasoli 1. pediatric neurology department, ali-asghar children’s hospital, iran university of medical sciences, tehran, iran. ladan afsharkhas* 1. pediatric neurology department, ali-asghar children’s hospital, iran university of medical sciences, tehran, iran. abdolmajid edraki 2.pediatric department, ali-asghar children’s hospital, iran university of medical sciences, tehran, iran.

how to cite this article: tavasoli a, afsharkhas l, edraki a. frequency of meningitis in children presenting with febrile seizure in ali-asghar children’s hospital. iran j child neurol. 2014 autumn; 8(4):51-56. abstract objective febrile seizures (fs) are the most common type of childhood seizures, affecting 2–5% of children. as the seizure may be the sole presentation of bacterial meningitis i...

Journal: :Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America 1999
A Viallon F Zeni C Lambert B Pozzetto B Tardy C Venet J C Bertrand

It was shown in children that serum procalcitonin was the best marker to use to differentiate bacterial from viral meningitis. To evaluate procalcitonin in the diagnosis of acute bacterial and viral meningitis, we conducted a prospective study including adult patients who were suspected of having meningitis and who were admitted to an emergency department. Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and serum le...

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