MeningitisGeorge Wireko-Brobby Meningitis is a medical emergency requiring a rapid diagnosis and an immediate transfer to an institution supplied with appropriate antibiotic and supportive measures. This book aims to provide general practitioners, paediatricians, and specialist physicians with an essential text written in an accessible language, and also to highlight the differences in pathogenesis and causative agents of meningitis in the developed and the developing world. |
Contents
Emerging Pathogens in Neonatal Bacterial Meningitis | 9 |
Perspectives of NeonatalPerinatal Bacterial Meningitis | 21 |
Neurologic Complications of Bacterial Meningitis | 35 |
Early Neurologic Outcome and | 45 |
Vaccines to Prevent Bacterial Meningitis in Children | 51 |
Tuberculous Meningitis | 65 |
Molecular Epidemiology and Drug | 85 |
Aseptic Meningitis Caused by Enteroviruses | 113 |
An Overview on Cryptococcal Meningitis | 125 |
Cryptococcal Meningitis | 135 |
Strategies for the Prevention of Meningitis | 163 |
Laboratory Diagnosis of Meningitis | 185 |
Role of Dexamethasone in Meningitis | 209 |
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