MENINGITIS

Diagnosis, Diagnostics, Immunodiagnosis & Immunodiagnostics:

15901.  Al-Tawfiq JA. Haemophilus influenzae type e meningitis and bacteremia in a healthy adult. Intern Med. 2007;46(4):195-8.

15902.  Avery RA, Frank G, Eppes SC. Predictive model for Lyme meningitis: a reply. Pediatrics. 2007 Jan;119(1):219-20.

15903.  Caws M, Thwaites GE, Duy PM, Tho DQ, Lan NT, Hoa DV, Chau TT, Huyen MN, Anh PT, Chau NV, Chinh TN, Stepniewska K, Farrar J. Molecular analysis of Mycobacterium tuberculosis causing multidrug-resistant tuberculosis meningitis. Int J Tuberc Lung Dis. 2007 Feb;11(2):202-8. 

15904.  Dinnes J, Deeks J, Kunst H, Gibson A, Cummins E, Waugh N, Drobniewski F, Lalvani A.   A systematic review of rapid diagnostic tests for the detection of tuberculosis infection. Health Technol Assess. 2007 Jan;11(3):1-196. Review. 

15905.  Ebell MH. Predicting the likelihood of bacterial meningitis in children. Am Fam Physician. 2007 Feb 15;75(4):533-5.

15906.  Fitch MT, van de Beek D.  Emergency diagnosis and treatment of adult meningitis. Lancet Infect Dis. 2007 Mar;7(3):191-200. Review. 

15907.  Kalita J, Misra UK, Ranjan P. Predictors of long-term neurological sequelae of tuberculous meningitis: a multivariate analysis. Eur J Neurol. 2007 Jan;14(1):33-7. 

15908.  Maree F, Hesseling AC, Schaaf HS, Marais BJ, Beyers N, van Helden P, Warren RM, Schoeman JF.  Absence of an association between Mycobacterium tuberculosis genotype and clinical features in children with tuberculous meningitis. Pediatr Infect Dis J. 2007 Jan;26(1):13-8. 

15909.  Marom R, Sakran W, Antonelli J, Horovitz Y, Zarfin Y, Koren A, Miron D. Quick identification of febrile neonates with low risk for serious bacterial infection: an observational study.  Arch Dis Child Fetal Neonatal Ed. 2007 Jan;92(1):F15-8. 

15910.  Pedro LG, Boente RF, Madureira DJ, Matos JA, Rebelo CM, Igreja RP, Barroso DE.    Diagnosis of meningococcal meningitis in Brazil by use of PCR. Scand J Infect Dis. 2007;39(1):28-32. 

15911.  Rafi W, Venkataswamy MM, Nagarathna S, Satishchandra P, Chandramuki A.  Role of IS6110 uniplex PCR in the diagnosis of tuberculous meningitis: experience at a tertiary neurocentre.  Int J Tuberc Lung Dis. 2007 Feb;11(2):209-14. 

15912.  Rafi W, Venkataswamy MM, Ravi V, Chandramuki A.  Rapid diagnosis of tuberculous meningitis: a comparative evaluation of in-house PCR assays involving three mycobacterial DNA sequences, IS6110, MPB-64 and 65 kDa antigen. J Neurol Sci. 2007 Jan 31;252(2):163-8.

Vaccines:

15913.  Backhouse JL, Gidding HF, MacIntyre CR, McIntyre PB, Gilbert GL.  Population-based seroprevalence of Neisseria meningitidis serogroup C capsular antibody before the introduction of conjugate vaccine, in Australia. Vaccine. 2007 Jan 26;25(7):1310-5.

15914.  Miller E, Andrews N, Stowe J, Grant A, Waight P, Taylor B.  Risks of convulsion and aseptic meningitis following measles-mumps-rubella vaccination in the United Kingdom. Am J Epidemiol. 2007 Mar 15;165(6):704-9.

15915.  Nigrovic LE, Kuppermann N, Macias CG, Cannavino CR, Moro-Sutherland DM, Schremmer RD, Schwab SH, Agrawal D, Mansour KM, Bennett JE, Katsogridakis YL, Mohseni MM, Bulloch B, Steele DW, Kaplan RL, Herman MI, Bandyopadhyay S, Dayan P, Truong UT, Wang VJ, Bonsu BK, Chapman JL, Kanegaye JT, Malley R; Pediatric Emergency Medicine Collaborative Research Committee of the American Academy of Pediatrics.  Clinical prediction rule for identifying children with cerebrospinal fluid pleocytosis at very low risk of bacterial meningitis. JAMA. 2007 Jan 3;297(1):52-60. 

Chemotherapy, Immunotherapy, Management & Drugs:

15916.  Klein M, Koedel U, Pfister HW.  Oxidative stress in pneumococcal meningitis: a future target for adjunctive therapy? Prog Neurobiol. 2006 Dec;80(6):269-80.

15917.  Nadel S, Kroll JS.  Diagnosis and management of meningococcal disease: the need for centralized care. FEMS Microbiol Rev. 2007 Jan;31(1):71-83. Review. 

15918.  Thwaites GE, Macmullen-Price J, Tran TH, Pham PM, Nguyen TD, Simmons CP, White NJ, Tran TH, Summers D, Farrar JJ. Serial MRI to determine the effect of dexamethasone on the cerebral pathology of tuberculous meningitis: an observational study. Lancet Neurol. 2007 Mar;6(3):230-6.