Dilemmas in the diagnosis of acute community-acquired bacterial meningitis

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Acute Bacterial Meningitis in Adults -- A Review of 493 Episodes

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Epidemiology, Diagnosis, and Antimicrobial Treatment of Acute Bacterial Meningitis

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Community-Acquired Bacterial Meningitis in Adults

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Simultaneous Detection of Neisseria meningitidis, Haemophilus influenzae, and Streptococcus pneumoniae in Suspected Cases of Meningitis and Septicemia Using Real-Time PCR

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Clinical recognition of meningococcal disease in children and adolescents

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Bacterial meningitis in children

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Community-acquired bacterial meningitis: risk stratification for adverse clinical outcome and effect of antibiotic timing

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Computed tomography of the head before lumbar puncture in adults with suspected meningitis

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Delays in the administration of antibiotics are associated with mortality from adult acute bacterial meningitis

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Impact of round-the-clock CSF Gram stain on empirical therapy for suspected central nervous system infections

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Community-acquired acute bacterial meningitis in adults: a clinical update

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Meningitis after COVID-19 vaccination, a systematic review of case reports and case series

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Comparison of Four International Guidelines on the Utility of Cranial Imaging Before Lumbar Puncture in Adults with Bacterial Meningitis

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The Next Frontier in Neurocritical Care in Resource-Constrained Settings

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Acute Bacterial Meningitis: Diagnosis, Treatment and Prevention

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Suspected Central Nervous System Infections in HIV-Infected Adults

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Accuracy of cerebrospinal leucocyte count, protein and culture for the diagnosis of acute bacterial meningitis: a comparative study using B ayesian latent class analysis

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Normocellular Community-Acquired Bacterial Meningitis in Adults: A Nationwide Population-Based Case Series

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Does This Adult Patient With Jolt Accentuation of Headache Have Acute Meningitis?

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Natural Compounds Therapeutic Features in Brain Disorders by Experimental, Bioinformatics and Cheminformatics Methods

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Development and validation of an advanced fragment analysis‐based assay for the detection of 22 pathogens in the cerebrospinal fluid of patients with meningitis and encephalitis

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Bacterial Meningitis in Older Adults

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Earlier Treatment and Improved Outcome in Adult Bacterial Meningitis Following Guideline Revision Promoting Prompt Lumbar Puncture

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Cerebrospinal Fluid Metabolome in Central Nervous System Infections: A Study of Diagnostic Accuracy

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Bacterial meningitis: An update review

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Measurement of Interleukin-6 in Cerebrospinal Fluid for the Diagnosis of Bacterial Meningitis

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Length of preoperative hospital stay is the dominating risk factor for surgical site infection in neurosurgery: A cohort data-driven analysis

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Accuracy of cerebrospinal fluid ferritin for purulent meningitis

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Diagnostic value of cerebrospinal fluid Neutrophil Gelatinase-Associated Lipocalin for differentiation of bacterial meningitis from tuberculous meningitis or cryptococcal meningitis: a prospective cohort study

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Systemic Listeria monocytogenes infection in a 2-year-old immunocompetent child

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Central Nervous System Infection

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Validation of the Bacterial Meningitis Score in adults consulting at an emergency department: a retrospective multicentric study

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Bakterielle Meningitis bei Erwachsenen im Notfall- und Rettungswesen

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Microbiomes detected by cerebrospinal fluid metagenomic next‐generation sequencing among patients with and without HIV with suspected central nervous system infection

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Granulocytes in cerebrospinal fluid of adults suspected of a central nervous system infection: a prospective study of diagnostic accuracy

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Bacterial Meningitis

Bulaeva, A., & Derber, C. (2025) · Medical Clinics of North America · doi:10.1016/j.mcna.2024.12.012 · Cited by 9

Reduced turnaround time and improved diagnosis of invasive serogroup B Neisseria meningitidis and Streptococcus pneumoniae infections using a lyophilized quadruplex quantitative PCR

McHugh, M. P., Gray, S. J., Kaczmarski, E. B., & Guiver, M. (2015) · Journal of Medical Microbiology · doi:10.1099/jmm.0.000154 · Cited by 7

Epidemiology of Meningitis Studied at a University Hospital in Zahedan, South-Eastern Iran

Sharifi‐Mood, B., Khajeh, A., Metanat, M., & Rasouli, A. (2015) · International Journal of Infection · doi:10.17795/iji-23634 · Cited by 7

Viral meningitis in the UK: time to speed up

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The attitudes, behaviors, and knowledge of healthcare professionals towards the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of bacterial meningitis in Turkey

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Performance of the FilmArray Blood culture identification panel in positive blood culture bottles and cerebrospinal fluid for the diagnosis of sepsis and meningitis

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Dilemma in diagnosis of pyogenic meningitis in cerebrospinal fluid contaminated with blood: Does leucocyte esterase test help?

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Validation and clinical implementation of cerebrospinal fluid C-reactive protein for the diagnosis of bacterial meningitis: a prospective diagnostic accuracy study

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The Epidemiology and Outcomes of Meningitis among Iranian Children in a Period of 10 Years

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Commonly encountered central nervous system infections in the intensive care unit

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Evaluation of cerebrospinal fluid levels for ALOX5, S100B, DEFA1, and GFAP in infectious meningitis

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MENINGITE BACTERIANA: UMA REVISÃO

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Cerebro-spinal fluid glucose and lactate concentrations changes in response to therapies in patIents with primary brain injury: the START-TRIP study

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A Multicenter Epidemiological and Pathogenic Characteristics Study of Community-Acquired Bacterial Meningitis Children in China: Results from the Chinese Pediatric Bacterial Meningitis Surveillance (CPBMS) 2019–2020

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Diagnostic Accuracy of Cerebrospinal Fluid Multiplex Polymerase Chain Reaction Panel Testing in Patients With Suspected Central Nervous System Infections: A Multi-Center Study in the United Arab Emirates

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Diagnosis and current treatment of pneumococcal meningitis

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Bacterial Infections of the Nervous System

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Central Nervous System Infections in the Elderly

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Bacterial ribosomal RNA detection in cerebrospinal fluid using a viromics approach

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Community-acquired bacterial meningitis in adults: emergency department management protocol

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Holistic Insights into Meningitic Escherichia Coli Infection of Astrocytes Based on Whole Transcriptome Profiling

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Bacterial meningitis and brain abscess

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Pediatric Meningoencephalitis; A Research on Patients Hospitalized in Zahedan, Southeastern Iran

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Proposal for a New Score-Based Approach To Improve Efficiency of Diagnostic Laboratory Workflow for Acute Bacterial Meningitis in Adults

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Case 40-2019: A 26-Year-Old Returning Traveler with Headache

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The Optimal Management of Acute Febrile Encephalopathy in the Aged Patient: A Systematic Review

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Acute and Chronic Meningitis

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Chronic alcohol abuse affects the clinical course and outcome of community-acquired bacterial meningitis

Paciorek, M., Bednarska, A., Krogulec, D., Makowiecki, M., Kowalska, J. D., Bursa, D., Świderska, A., Puła, J., Raczyńska, J., Skrzat‐Klapaczyńska, A., et al. (2019) · European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases · doi:10.1007/s10096-019-03661-5 · Cited by 4

Fc-MBL-modified Fe3O4 magnetic bead enrichment and fixation in Gram stain for rapid detection of low-concentration bacteria

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Multidrug-Resistant Corynebacterium striatum Developed During Treatment of Ommaya Reservoir Infection

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The Diagnostic Value of Cerebrospinal Fluid Lactate for Detection of Sepsis in Community-Acquired Bacterial Meningitis

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Pattern recognition analysis of proton nuclear magnetic resonance spectra of postmortem cerebrospinal fluid from rats with drug-induced seizure or coma

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Characteristics of patients with meningitis after lumbar epidural steroid injection

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High pretest probability of meningitis requires lumbar puncture regardless of the finding of jolt accentuation of headache

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The Streptococcus pneumoniae transcriptome in patient cerebrospinal fluid identifies novel virulence factors required for meningitisPreprint

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Diagnostic and prognostic value of combined cerebrospinal fluid parameters for post-neurosurgical intracranial infection in brain tumor patients

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Edwardsiella tarda is an Important Causative Agent of Maternal-Fetal Infections in Pregnant Women: a Case Report and Japanese Literature Review

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Unraveling the interplay between meningitis and mitochondria: Etiology, pathogenesis, and therapeutic insights

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Investigating Blood Biomarkers That Can Facilitate the Diagnosis of Meningitis—A Systematic Literature Review

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Streptococcus pneumoniae and Herpes Simplex Virus-1 Central Nervous System Co-Infection

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Acute Bacterial Meningitis in Healthy Adult Patients: A Prospective Cohort Study

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Are cerebrospinal fluid biochemical parameters valid to predict positive results in microbiological molecular diagnostic platforms? A 4-year experience with the FilmArray® Panel Meningitis/Encephalitis for detection of community-acquired bacterial meningitis

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DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY OF CLINICAL AND LABORATORY CHARACTERISTICS IN SUSPECTED NONSURGICAL NOSOCOMIAL CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM INFECTIONS

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A multicenter clinical epidemiology of pediatric pneumococcal meningitis in China: results from the Chinese Pediatric Bacterial Meningitis Surveillance (CPBMS) 2019–2020

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Differentiation between viral and autoimmune limbic encephalitis: a prospective cohort study with development and validation of a diagnostic model

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A DAMP-Based Assay for Rapid and Affordable Diagnosis of Bacterial Meningitis Agents: Haemophilus influenzae, Neisseria meningitidis, and Streptococcus pneumoniae

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Acute Infectious Diseases

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Value of Broad Range 16S Ribosomal RNA Gene PCR / Sequencing (Br-PCR) of CSF in the Diagnosis of Bacterial Meningitis

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Group A Streptococcal Meningitis in a Patient with Palmoplantar Pustulosis

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A Retrospective Study on the First Cerebrospinal Fluid Taken from External Ventricular Drainage Insertion in Meningitis Patients with Hydrocephalus

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