introduction bacterial meningitis is a known infectious disease which occurs at early ages and should be promptly diagnosed and treated. bacterial and aseptic meningitis are hard to be distinguished. therefore, physicians should be highly informed and experienced in this area. the main aim of this study was to suggest a system for distinguishing between bacterial and aseptic meningitis, using f...

INTRODUCTION Streptococcus pneumoniae is the leading cause of bacterial meningitis. Young children, the elderly and those who are immunocompromised or who suffer from chronic diseases have the highest risk of developing pneumococcal meningitis. A 7-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV7) was licensed in 2000 in the US and in 2001 in Europe. METHODS A literature search was performed in Pu...

ARTICLE INFO ABSTRACT Article history: Received 5 November 2010 Accepted 7 February 2011 Available online 11 April 2011 Meningitis is one of the most common infectious cerebral nervous system (CNS), defined as an inflammation of the meninges. It is clinically categorized into a chronic and acute based on the acuity of symptoms. Vomiting, bulging fontanel and fever are the main symptoms in the p...

Background: Meningitis is the most common intracranial complication of sinusitis. Objective: Determine the frequency of sinusitis using CT scans in children with documented meningitis. Methods and materials: A prospective, cross sectional study was done in pediatric infectious ward of Rasul Hospital in Tehran, Iran during 2010-2011. In this study 65 cases with meningitis were evaluated for pres...

chronic suppurative otitis media(C.S.O.M) in a chronic infective and chronic inflammatory process of middle ear and mastoid that may be with or without cholesteatoma.Due to its significant problems and complications such as hearing loss,labyrinthitis,facial nerve paralysis,meningitis,brain abscess,extra and subdural  BSCESS AND LATERAL SINUS THROMBOSIS IS A FATAL AND IMPORTANT DISEASE.IN THIS S...

The incident of Tuberculosis (TB) in Malaysia is estimated 81.4 per 100,000 population [1]. In 2011, the number of extra pulmonary TB reported was 2888 cases [1]. Reported cases of extra pulmonary TB in Malaysia noted to be increasing in trend over the years based on statistic from 2005 to 2011 [1]. Although the prevalence of TB meningitis is low, it has high mortality and morbidity if inadequa...

BACKGROUND Persistent neutrophilic meningitis is an unusual form of chronic meningitis that is defined as clinical meningitis with a neutrophilic pleocytosis that persists for greater than 7 days despite empiric antimicrobial therapy. Although numerous disease processes can cause this syndrome, the majority of cases are due to opportunistic pathogens infecting immunocompromised hosts. CASE PR...

c Clinical diagnosis—The classical symptoms and signs of acute meningitis may be absent in the very young, the very old and the very sick. Chronic meningitis requires a degree of clinical suspicion, as again signs of meningism may be minimal or absent. c Laboratory diagnosis—Difficulties may arise in patients whose cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) examination yields a typical ‘‘aseptic meningitis’’ pi...

conclusion clinical manifestations and csf abnormality of neurobrucellosis is similar to tuberculosis and neurobrucellosis must be kept in mind in approach of patients with acute or chronic lymphocytic meningitis with increased protein and low glucose level in csf and risk factors of brucellosis. results neurological manifestations include meningitis (64.9%), meningoencephalitis (11.6%), crania...