meningitis
Research Topic
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Research problems linked to this topic
- Tuberculous (TB) meningitis (TBM), accounting for 70-80% of cases of neurotuberculosis, is one of the most severe forms of extrapulmonary tuberculosis.
- Bacterial meningitis (BM) is a serious infectious disease of the central nervous system that often occurs in children and adolescents.
- Meningococcal infection may lead to life threatening meningitis and fulminant meningococcal sepsis.
- Vancomycin-resistant enterococci are unusual etiologic agents of bacterial meningitis and pose significant therapeutic difficulties.
- Acinetobacter baumannii, a healthcare-associated infectious agent with various antibiotic resistance mechanisms, may cause pneumonia, meningitis and sepsis with severe course and high mortality rate.
- Neisseria meningitidis is the leading cause of epidemic meningitis in the meningitis belt of Africa, where clonal waves of colonization and disease are observed.