MENINGITIS  

Diagnosis, Diagnostics, Immunodiagnosis & Immunodiagnostics:  

6812.      Boyle RJ, Curtis N, Kelly N, Garland SM, Carapetis JR.Clinical implications of inducible beta-lactamase activity in Gram-negative bacteremia in children. Pediatr Infect Dis J. 2002 Oct;21(10):935-40.

6813.      Bui TT, Delgado CA, Simon HK. Infant seizures not so infantile: first-time seizures in children under six months of age presenting to the ED. Am J Emerg Med. 2002 Oct;20(6):518-20.

6814.      Chadwick DR, Lever AM. The impact of new diagnostic methodologies in the management of meningitis in adults at a teaching hospital. QJM. 2002 Oct;95(10):663-70.

6815.      Chinchankar N, Mane M, Bhave S, Bapat S, Bavdekar A, Pandit A, Niphadkar KB, Dutta A, Leboulleux D.Diagnosis and outcome of acute bacterial meningitis in early childhood. Indian Pediatr. 2002 Oct;39(10):914-21.

6816.      Chitkara MB, Ryan LM, Stockwell D, Wiedermann BL. Can a clinical decision rule decrease antibiotic use in viral meningitis? Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2002 Dec;156(12):1195-8.

6817.      Nashkevich NN, Akalovich S, Louneva N, Heavner GA, Voitenok NN. A monoclonal antibody and an enzyme immunoassay for human Ala-IL-8(77).J Immunol Methods  2002 Dec 1;270(1):37-51

6818.      Patel VB, Bhigjee AI, Bill PL, Connolly CA.Cytokine profiles in HIV seropositive patients with tuberculous meningitis.J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry  2002 Nov;73(5):598-9

Pathogensis:

6819.      Bulgan T, Gilbert CE.  Prevalence and causes of severe visual impairment and blindness in children in Mongolia. Ophthalmic Epidemiol. 2002 Oct;9(4):271-81.

6820.      Geyik MF, Kokoglu OF, Hosoglu S, Ayaz C.Acute bacterial meningitis as a complication of otitis media and related mortality factors. Yonsei Med J. 2002 Oct;43(5):573-8.

6821.      Kubo S, Takimoto H, Hosoi K, Toyota S, Karasawa J, Yoshimine T.Osteomyelitis of the odontoid process associated with meningitis and retropharyngeal abscess--case report. Neurol Med Chir (Tokyo). 2002 Oct;42(10):447-51.

6822.      Leask SJ, Done DJ, Crow TJ.Adult psychosis, common childhood infections and neurological soft signs in a national birth cohort. Br J Psychiatry. 2002 Nov;181:387-92.

 Vaccines:

6823.      Zhou F, Bisgard KM, Yusuf HR, Deuson RR, Bath SK, Murphy TV.Impact of universal Haemophilus influenzae type b vaccination starting at 2 months of age in the United States: an economic analysis. Pediatrics. 2002 Oct;110(4):653-61.

Therapy:

6824.      Irazuzta JE, Pretzlaff RK, Zingarelli B, Xue V, Zemlan F.  Modulation of nuclear factor-kappaB activation and decreased markers of neurological injury associated with hypothermic therapy in experimental bacterial meningitis. Crit Care Med. 2002 Nov;30(11):2553-9.

6825.      Kanner AA, Vogelbaum MA, Mayberg MR, Weisenberger JP, Barnett GH. Intracranial navigation by using low-field intraoperative magnetic resonance imaging: preliminary experience. J Neurosurg. 2002 Nov;97(5):1115-24.

6826.      Ouma JR. Recurrent meningitis due to unrecognised skull fracture.S Afr Med J. 2002 Oct;92(10):778-9. 36: 

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