A mother-of-four is dedicating her life to educating people about meningitis after her two sons beat the deadly disease. |
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Now health chiefs are considering whether a further jab which fights bacterial meningitis, septicemia and pneumonia could save lives. |
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We are seeing more and more cases of septicaemia without any meningitis symptoms which makes it hard to diagnose. |
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The Foundation fights death and disability from meningitis and septicaemia and supports people affected by the diseases. |
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The children then succumb to diseases like tuberculosis, pneumonia and meningitis. |
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The most common cause of fungal meningitis, Cryptococcosis is a fungal disease with a marked predilection for lung and brain. |
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Among the possible after-effects of meningitis are the amputation of fingers or toes and the danger of losing one's hearing. |
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These children could be suffering from illnesses including meningitis, septicemia or a physical injury. |
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The young couple are calling for more information about meningitis to be made more readily available. |
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A larger number of children with TB meningitis or miliary TB have a skin test that is initially nonreactive. |
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As many of your readers will know, meningitis can take hold rapidly with devastating and sometimes fatal effects. |
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Reye's syndrome is often misdiagnosed as encephalitis or meningitis, two complications that often appear in case studies of varicella deaths. |
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It can also occur in the bowels, kidneys, bones and joints and can cause meningitis. |
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She and her husband were trying for children when he was struck down with meningitis and was maintained on a life support machine in a coma. |
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A teenager with suspected meningitis was today recovering at home after receiving hospital treatment. |
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Killarney is this week on a public health red alert following confirmation of two new cases of meningitis in the town. |
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Characteristically, meningitis, through retrograde spread, often leads to ependymitis. |
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Identification of the organism and treatment will prevent progression to meningitis, endocarditis or other complications. |
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The first concern is to rule out treatable forms of dementia such as encephalitis or chronic meningitis. |
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Patients with meningitis or encephalitis may need pain control for headache. |
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An alternative, but it must be emphasised tentative, diagnosis, is encephalitic meningitis. |
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A ten-month-old boy has had his legs, arm and five digits amputated after contracting meningitis in Sheffield. |
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The initial phase is followed by the abrupt development of clinical symptoms such as fever, diaphoresis, hemorrhagic meningitis, and shock. |
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One patient had rheumatoid arthritis with granulomatous meningitis, which was thought to be noninfectious. |
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These nodules are frequently found in cases of tuberculous meningitis and represent caseating granulomas typical of tuberculosis. |
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In such outbreaks, pneumococcal infections have included sepsis, meningitis, purulent conjunctivitis, recurrent otitis media and sinusitis. |
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She thought that it might be a consequence of drinking too much orange juice but her GP was worried about meningitis. |
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In view of the history of recurring meningitis, search of the child's skin then showed a small punctum in the back of the neck. |
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Scientists hope new research could result in a vaccine for the potentially deadly meningitis B virus. |
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It had found another boy whose meningitis had been misdiagnosed as flu and who was now brain damaged. |
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A baby is in intensive care and has somehow contracted meningitis while there. |
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We describe two children with recurrent bacterial meningitis due to cranial anatomical defects in whom diagnosis was delayed. |
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At first it was believed she had meningococcal meningitis or leptospirosis, but tests ruled those out. |
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The diagnosis of meningitis was based on a typical clinical presentation and a marked neutrophilic pleocytosis in the cerebrospinal fluid. |
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Outbreaks of cholera, malaria, typhoid, leishmaniasis, meningitis, and haemorrhagic fever also recorded. |
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Other possible CNS complications include encephalitis, meningitis, transverse myelitis and, rarely, Reye's syndrome. |
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There are a number of causes of meningitis, including viral and bacterial infections. |
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Herpes viruses, including the one that causes glandular fever, are the second most common cause of viral meningitis. |
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Droppings carry potentially dangerous bacteria like listeria and salmonella that can cause a range of illnesses including meningitis. |
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Central nervous system tuberculosis includes tuberculous meningitis, intracranial tuberculomas, and spinal tuberculous arachnoiditis. |
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Meningococcal meningitis vaccines is also required by the authorities as these infections can be picked up from fellow travellers. |
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He was just 13 when he was struck down with meningitis and spent 13 months in hospital. |
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The addition of corticosteroids is recommended for patients with tuberculous pericarditis and tuberculous meningitis. |
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These complications include pleural infection or empyema, meningitis, purulent pericarditis, or endocarditis. |
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Penicillin kills most gram negative cocci that cause gonorrhea and epidemic spinal meningitis. |
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Selecting the appropriate treatment for patients with acute bacterial meningitis who are hypersensitive to lactams is difficult. |
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Elevated intracranial pressure is present in many pathologic states, including meningitis, intracranial hemorrhage, and tumors. |
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Patients with neurologic diseases such as hydrocephalus and meningitis may also present with persistent vomiting. |
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I know I had diabetes, meningitis and acute ingestion, besides gastritis, rheumatism, lumbago and neuritis. |
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The infection may be passed on without causing meningitis or any symptoms of the disease. |
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If a doctor suspects meningitis he or she will refer the person affected to hospital. |
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People with viral meningitis need to rest and take painkillers, such as paracetamol or ibuprofen. |
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Routine vaccination of babies prevents many cases of meningitis, another cause of brain damage in the early months. |
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We recently admitted two cases of tuberculous meningitis to our hospital within a week. |
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It is used to test for meningitis, lymphoma, leukemia, or other cancers of the brain or brain system. |
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Four out of the five Indian cases with septicaemia or meningitis had a fatal outcome. |
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A spinal tap was performed which showed the presence of malignant cells leading to the diagnosis of carcinomatous meningitis. |
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West Nile meningitis and encephalitis are notifiable diseases and should be reported to local health departments. |
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Viral meningitis is not a notifiable disease in South Carolina, so comparative data are not available for previous years. |
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It wouldn't do, either, to underestimate the parental anger over the shemozzle of the current meningitis vaccine programme. |
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It uses a diagram of a baby to show where the telltale signs of meningitis materialise. |
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Invasive disease includes bacteremia, meningitis and infection in a normally sterile site, excluding the middle ear. |
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The pneumococcal bacterium is the second most common cause of bacterial meningitis. |
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Even if you don't feel that bad, meningitis is a quick moving disease so it's better to be safe than sorry. |
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Faye Stuart died in hospital five days after she was struck down by pneumococcal meningitis, a rare and non-contagious form of the disease. |
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Students heading back to start their new term at university are being given handy reminders of the warning signs of meningitis. |
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Chris died within a day of contracting the deadly brain bug meningococcal meningitis in January. |
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Without proper treatment, valley fever can lead to severe pneumonia, meningitis, and even death. |
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A couple whose baby was struck down with meningitis on their wedding day were today bringing their son home. |
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Coxsackie viruses can also cause meningitis, an infection of the meninges, and rarely, encephalitis, a brain infection. |
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Internal bleeding, blood poisoning or even meningitis are preceded by symptoms such as mild fever, fatigue and coughing. |
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Many traveler's diseases are a nuisance like Montezuma's revenge, but some can be fatal, such as malaria, yellow fever, AIDS, and meningitis. |
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The medicos said there had been numerous cases of meningitis since 1971 caused by people eating garden snails or slugs. |
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One-year-old Eva Heeks contracted meningitis soon after birth, leaving her blind, deaf and unable to walk, talk or feed properly. |
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Bacterial meningitis is the most common cause of profound deafness acquired in childhood. |
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Patients with tuberculous meningitis should be treated for at least nine months. |
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But it is believed viral meningitis in its mildest form is often mistaken for flu. |
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While mumps is usually not very serious, it may develop into viral meningitis is some cases. |
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The key early symptoms of meningitis are headache, stiff neck and dislike of bright lights. |
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Most people who get the disease have some symptoms of both meningococcal meningitis and meningococcal septicaemia. |
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The most common forms of the bug were now strain C of the bacterial meningococcal meningitis and its blood poisoning relative, septicaemia. |
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Neisseria meningitidis, the meningococcus, is a globally distributed cause of bacterial meningitis and septicemia. |
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But just as he was ready to go into action, his unit was struck by an outbreak of meningitis. |
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Some patients who have had meningitis may require longer-term follow-up. |
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After their split, Jim Friel died shockingly at age 48 of bacterial meningitis. |
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A spokesman for Essex Health Authority said it had been in close liaison with the school and was helping it to pass on advice to parents on how to spot meningitis. |
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Droppings carry potentially dangerous bacteria such as listeria and salmonella that can cause a range of illnesses including meningitis, pneumonia and lung damage. |
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Rarer conditions include aspergillosis and cryptococcal meningitis. |
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Rarely, severe infections can lead to inflammation of the brain or meningitis. |
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Complications from ear infections include mastoiditis and meningitis. |
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If the infection spreads to the meninges meningitis can develop. |
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Because bacterial meningitis is most likely to occur in confined settings such as college dorms, some colleges ask that incoming students be vaccinated against meningococcus. |
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One is meningitis, an infection of the lining of the brain, that is fatal in about 10 percent of cases. |
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The beneficial role of adjunctive corticosteroids have been demonstrated in miliary tuberculosis, tuberculous meningitis and pneumocystis carinii pneumonia. |
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The most common forms of extra-pulmonary involvement include lymphadenopathies, pleural effusion, pericardial disease, miliary disease and meningitis. |
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Adjunctive corticosteroids may be beneficial in patients with tuberculous meningitis, tuberculous pericarditis, or miliary tuberculosis with refractory hypoxemia. |
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Writer Frank McCourt died Sunday at the age of 78 after battling skin cancer and meningitis. |
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Mona had tuberculous meningitis when she was 12, she tells me. |
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However, doctors quickly became suspicious about her symptoms and it was discovered that she was in fact suffering from a rare form of tuberculous meningitis. |
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My hopes for an easy way out quickly vanished when he launched into a list that included hepatitis A, hepatitis B, cholera, tetanus, typhoid, polio, meningitis and malaria. |
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Recent examples of fake drugs include a meningitis vaccine made of tap water, paracetamol syrup made of industrial solvent and contraceptive pills made of wheat flour. |
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Complications of mumps include meningitis, encephalitis and deafness. |
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Several years before Lou contracted ALS, Bruce Campbell, a Cleveland outfielder, came down with spinal meningitis. |
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Viral meningitis may be caused by viruses such as coxsackie, herpes simplex, mumps, the varicella zoster virus of chickenpox and shingles, poliovirus, echoviruses. |
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The sensitivity according to the causative organism ranges from 90 percent in pneumococcal or staphylococcal meningitis to less than 50 percent in Listeria meningitis. |
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Mumps can be linked to meningitis and cause sterility in males. |
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This work established a differential diagnosis for cerebrospinal meningitis, and for it she became the first woman to be awarded the Hutchison Prize of Glasgow University. |
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A mother whose son died of meningitis is warning businesses in Swindon not to respond to a chain letter that asks for compliment slips to be sent to a boy dying of cancer. |
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This infection inflames the meninges, and it is called meningitis. |
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Teenagers who intimately kiss many different people almost quadruple their risk of developing meningitis, according to a study to be published today. |
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This relatively simple test told us that Marie Anne had bacterial meningitis due to the pneumococcus, an organism that belonged in her throat, not in her nervous system. |
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Whereas meningococcemia was formerly associated with pyogenic meningitis, the disease is now so fulminant that meningitis does not have time to become established. |
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Mr Thompson, a funeral director in Harrogate, said his son was only diagnosed with meningitis when a rash appeared, despite suffering seven other symptoms of the condition. |
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Suspected CSF rhinorrhea needs to be reported to the neurosurgeon immediately and treated as soon as possible to prevent meningitis. |
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Animal models have demonstrated necrosis of skeletal muscle, periosteum, perichondrial tissues, and evidence of meningitis and encephalitis. |
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A STUDENT has died from suspected meningitis in a university hall of residence. |
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In Anhui Province, China, there has been a previously high risk for epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis. |
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Tumors that erode the supraorbital plate and dura mater may cause cerebrospinal fluid leakage, pneumatocele, meningitis, or cerebral abscess. |
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She was killed by bacterial infection pneumococcal meningitis which causes inflammation of the lining around the brain and spinal cord. |
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He said the Pneumococcal disease could cause pneumonia, meningitis sepsis, febrile bacteraemia, arthritis, peritonitis and osteomyelitis. |
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Everyone's generosity and dedication is inspirational, especially considering some grieve or face life-changing after-effects from meningitis. |
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Sierra Leone suffers from epidemic outbreaks of diseases, including yellow fever, cholera, lassa fever and meningitis. |
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This rise was not related to any epidemic, but showed the interest of healthcare workers in microbiologic surveillance of meningitis. |
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Nancy was born with meningitis, septicemia, and hydrocephalus. |
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On Monday, the CDC got word of possible meningitis cases stemming from other NECC products besides the methylprednisolone acetate. |
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Maggie's coma was a result of a condition called mycoplasma meningoencephalitis, a type of meningitis that can cause swelling in the brain. |
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Meningococcal meningitis is an infection of the membranes around the brain and spinal cord that is fatal in about 10 percent of cases. |
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Meningococcal disease is a leading cause of bacterial meningitis and sepsis. |
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The most common cause of bacterial meningitis is the bacterium Neisseria meningitides. |
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Meningococcal meningitis is a bacterial form of meningitis, a serious infection of the meninges that affects the brain membrane. |
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In addition, locations of inflammation where infection is the most common cause include pneumonia, meningitis and salpingitis. |
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A SCAN to spot meningitis in babies within seconds has been developed to replace painful lumbar punctures. |
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Inspiring too was Levana Hanson, an eight-year-old who lost her legs to meningitis. |
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In September 2015, all remaining US tour dates were cancelled after Daltrey contracted viral meningitis. |
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Eight-yearold Levana Hanson, who lost both her legs as a baby due to meningitis, and 12-year-old Jake Peach, who survived cancer. |
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People with AIDS tend to die after years of suffering, often screaming from the agony of cryptococcal meningitis or choking on thrush fungus. |
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By 25 November 1900 Wilde had developed meningitis, then called cerebral meningitis. |
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Antibiotic prophylaxis for preventing meningitis in patients with basilar skull fractures. |
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In addition to causing TBM, TB infection in the CNS also can cause serous meningitis, tuberculomas, brain abscesses, and spinal leptomeningitis. |
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Determination of the etiology of bacterial meningitis and estimating cost of disease are important in guiding vaccination policies. |
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Patients who had been diagnosed with meningitis, ventriculitis, or any systemic infection before data collection were excluded from the study. |
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The most common sites of tuberculous meningitis are the sylvian fissure, the chiasmatic cistern, and the perimesencephalic cistern. |
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Bacterial otitis interna can lead to meningitis with bacteria spreading through the vestibulocochlear nerve. |
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Last year nearly 50 back patients died from fungal meningitis after being spinally injected with contaminated corticosteroids. |
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The initial symptoms are the same as bacterial meningitis, its more dangerous counterpart which can kill in under four hours. |
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Pneumococcus causes potentially life-threatening diseases including pneumonia and meningitis. |
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The most common underlying causes of death in HIV-positive pregnant women were tuberculosis, pneumonia, pneumocystis pneumonia and meningitis. |
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Fluconazole, used for outpatient treatment of cryptococcal meningitis, is potentially hepatotoxic. |
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Although the epidemiology of bacterial meningitis has changed, the ranking of causative organisms has not. |
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A University of Oregon student who died on Friday most likely succumbed to bacterial meningitis, according to Lane County Public Health. |
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Hormonal ablation as effective therapy for carcinomatous meningitis from prostatic carcinoma. |
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National charity the Meningitis Trust found more than a third of bacterial meningitis victims are left with after-effects. |
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The most common intracranial complication was brain abscess, followed by meningitis, lateral sinus thrombosis, and extradural abscess. |
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A case of isoniazid-resistant miliary tuberculosis in which tuberculous meningitis paradoxically developed despite systemic improvement. |
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Neisseria sicca meningitis following intracranial hemorrhage and ventriculostomy tube placement. |
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A fistulous sinus tract may lead to recurrent bouts of bacterial meningitis. |
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Thanks to Fleming's flub, diseases like pneumonia, meningitis, and scarlet fever are no longer killers. |
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Bio Farma and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation have been discussing the possibility of producing more specific vaccines such as for meningitis and pneumococcus. |
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Complications of severe meningitis can include ventriculitis, extra-axial fluid collections, parenchymal infection, and secondary infectious vasculitis. |
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One of the stars of the show was Levana Hanson, who lost both legs to meningitis and endured 40 operations before being fitted with prosthetic legs. |
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Few people have heard of GBS, yet it's the most common cause of severe bacterial infection in newborns, and of meningitis in babies under three months. |
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The cerebrospinal meningitis epidemic that struck Nigeria in 1996 took at least 12,000 lives over a six-month period, and affected more than 100,000 people. |
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Herpes simplex virus now ranks second among the causes of viral meningitis in adolescents and adults, and is set to increase as the incidence of genital herpes rises. |
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A record 53 cases of viral meningitis have been reported in Ventura County this year, three times more than in 1997, health officials said Monday. |
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Just a few decades ago, a pediatrician getting a frantic phone call from a parent whose child was running a high fever would immediately consider bacterial meningitis. |
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Other sequelae include potentially life-threatening conditions such as meningitis, cavernous sinus thrombosis, brain abscess, and subarachnoid empyema. |
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Preteens and teens are at greater risk for meningitis than other age groups, and are recommended for vaccination by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. |
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Meningism, commonly associated with the meningeal irritation of meningitis, may be mistaken for neck stiffness associated with impending tonsillar herniation. |
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Numb chin syndrome as the presenting symptom of carcinomatous meningitis. |
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Group B streptococcus infections, caused by the bacterium streptococcus agalactiae, are the most common cause of meningitis, septicaemia and pneumonia in newborn babies. |
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In this extremely rare case of meningitis and masked mastoiditis, it's regrettable that due to its hidden nature nothing further was able to be done. |
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In most cases bacterial meningitis occurs between October to March. |
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The diagnoses of the 10 remaining patients were classified as miscodes because the written diagnoses in the charts did not mention lymphocytic meningitis. |
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Vigilant One in five cases of bacterial meningitis leads to death. |
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Bacterial meningitis in childhood is almost exclusively caused by the respiratory tract pathogens Streptococcus pneumoniae, Neisseria meningitidis, and Haemophilus influenzae. |
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The chest HRCT result was consistent with miliary tuberculosis, and the brain MRI revealed findings were consistent with tuberculous granuloma and tuberculous meningitis. |
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In a study on patients with meningitis and ventriculitis, Coen et al. |
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Bacterial meningitis and ventriculitis left Rasouli in a coma with widespread injury to his brain as well as damage to his brainstem and spinal cord. |
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The TAD centre has also put itself at the heart of the community, supporting charitable causes such as funds for baby Kyle Sheekey, who suffered from meningitis. |
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Central nervous system complications which have been reported to be related to zona zoster infection include myelitis, aseptic meningitis, encephalitis and ventriculitis. |
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Around 500,000 Britons have had viral or bacterial meningitis. |
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Her referral to hospital with pneumococcal meningitis was delayed for two days after out-of-hours GP Dr I Salih told her worried mother Nicola she had gastric flu. |
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