Outbreak of Aseptic Meningitis with Exanthem

An outbreak of aseptic meningitis in Hatay Province, Turkey.

A meningitis is an inflammation of the meninges with sterile bacterial cultures of CSF.1 Enteroviruses are the most commonly identified cause of aseptic meningitis worldwide. These viruses appear throughout the year, but in temperate climates they are strikingly more prevalent in the summer and fall. Because viral shedding from the gastrointestinal tract is more prolonged than is shedding from ...

Outbreak of aseptic meningitis among adults in southern Taiwan.

A total of 38 adult cases of aseptic meningitis were diagnosed based on clinical manifestations as well as examination of cerebrospinal fluid at Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital in 2001. The majority (31 cases, 82%) of cases occurred between June and August, and most (33 cases, 87%) of them aged from 18 to 35 years (median age, 25 years). The male-to-female ratio was 2.16:1. Common clinical ...

Aseptic meningitis with relapsing polychondritis

Acute Aseptic Meningitis

aseptic meningitis or benign lymphocytic meningitis has been given. Wallgren (1925) gave the first account of this condition. His observa, tions were based on a small epidemic. Since then it has been described from time to time by many physicians under different names ?aseptic benign purulent meningitis (Schiff, 1930), idiopathic benign serous, meningitis (Andersen and Wulff, 1930), epidemic me...

Aseptic meningitis with relapsing polychondritis mimicking bacterial meningitis.

Relapsing polychondritis (RP) is a rare multisystem autoimmune disease. Though meningitis in RP is not common, some cases with cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) pleocytosis of the lymphocyte cells have been reported. Of the 18 previously reported cases, two cases demonstrated pleocytosis of polymorphonuclear leukocytes (PMN) in the CSF. In addition, cases with a decreased glucose level in the CSF were ...