E. coli is the most common Gram-negative bacteria causing neonatal meningitis, and E. coli meningitis continues to be an important cause of mortality and morbidity throughout the world. Recent reports of E. coli meningitis caused by antimicrobial resistant strains are a particular concern. These findings indicate that a novel strategy is needed to identify new targets for prevention and therapy...

studying csf (cerebro spinal fluid) is a simple and fast measure for diagnosing meningitis in children. for this reason, lp [umbar puncture] is used to treat csf.  regarding the side effects of lp, we decided to determine the positive points observed in the patients’ files than total patients confined to bed in our selected population. in this study conducted by descriptive retrospective method...

Gram-negative bacillary meningitis (GNBM) is commonly seen in infants and neonates. However, GNBM can cause severe meningitis in adults, although rarely. It usually occurs after central nervous system trauma and neurosurgical procedures. The immunocompromised, the elderly, or patients with chronic diseases are at high risk.1,3 Numerous antibiotics have been tried in the treatment of GNBM, but o...

BACKGROUND To delineate the epidemiologic trend, clinical characteristics and therapeutic outcomes of bacterial meningitis in young adults in Southern Taiwan. PATIENTS AND METHODS Over a period of 18 years, 329 cases of culture-proven adult bacterial meningitis were identified at our hospital. Among these 329 cases, 62 were identified as young adults (< or = 40 years) and their clinical featu...

objective this study aimed at investigating seasonal variation, clinical symptoms, and cerebrospinal fluid (csf) changes in patients with aseptic meningitis admitted in mofid hospital between 1995 and 1996. materials & methods a total of 63 children with aseptic meningitis were enrolled in the study. their age, gender, season of the disease, etiology, clinical symptoms, csf changes, and treatme...

background: herpes simplex virus (hsv) is a member of herpesviridae and a leading cause of human viral diseases. meningitis occurs as a complication of hsv-1 or hsv-2 primary infection. objectives: we aimed to evaluate hsv meningitis in children in gorgan province, iran. patients and methods: forty-five cerebrospinal fluid samples were taken from children referred with meningitis symptoms. samp...

UNLABELLED Meningitis and encephalitis are complications of West Nile virus (WNV) infection. Although WNV is endemic in North America, the virus has recently been reported in Colombia and Argentina. Investigation of WNV in Brazil is important since this virus has never been studied previously in this country. OBJECTIVE To investigate the presence of WNV infection in viral encephalitis/meningi...