background and objectives : bacterial meningitis is one of the most serious infections and should be treated as emergency. as it has significant morbidity and mortality throughout the world, every country should have precise information regarding the etiological agents of disease and populations at risk to design public health prevention strategy. in the present study in addition of evaluation ...

background: acute bacterial meningitis is among serious infections of the central nervous system (cns). the early diagnosis and empiric antibiotic treatments have led to a reduction in morbidity and mortality rates. pcr and the enzymatic digestion of 16s rdna fragment following the pcr by universal primers led up fast and sensitive determination. the aims of the present study was to improve our...

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...

background: viruses are by far the most common cause of meningitis in children. objectives: the aim of this study is to describe the epidemiology of viral/aseptic meningitis (am) in children (2 months - 15 years) in shiraz. materials and methods: this is a cross-sectional prospective-descriptive study from may 2001 to may 2002 in nemazi and dastgheib hospitals, shiraz. ev meningitis was diagnos...

The techniques of propositional analysis are used to examine the protocols of seven cardiologists in a task involving the diognosis of a case of acute bocterial endocarditis and an explonotion of its underlying pathophysiology. It is shown that the explanations of physicians making an accurate diagnosis can be accounted for in terms of a model consisting of pure forword reasoning through a netw...

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. pat...

Objective: Meningitis is life-threatening condition and examination of the Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) may not give a precise diagnosis and prognosis of different types of meningitis. Bacterial meningitis is still a very common problem especially in many developing countries. The aims of study are to estimate the importance and significance of Lactate Dehydrogenase (LDH), protein...

Background: Meningitis is a major cause of morbidity in the world. Previous studies showed that weather factors influence occurrence meningitis. A multiple linear regression model was developed to forecast meningitis cases Burkina Faso using factors. However, multivariate based on times series data may produce fallacious results given autocorrelation errors.