In our medical institution, the tests for a patient with meningitis included the following: CSF cytology, Gram stain and culture, acid-fast stain and culture, fungus culture, PCR for TB, PCR for the ...

Those travelling to Saudi Arabia for Umrah no longer require to be vaccinated against Neisseria meningitis. This was informed by the General Authority of Civil Aviation (GACA) in a new circular on ...

KARACHI: Pakistani travellers heading to Saudi Arabia for Umrah or Hajj are no longer required to provide proof of Neisseria meningitis vaccination, as the Saudi Civil Aviation Authority has ...

When it comes to bacterial infections, bacterial meningitis may not be the most common one, but it is certainly among the most serious. "The most worrisome part of bacterial meningitis is the ...

Background The gold standard for diagnosis of meningitis is the isolation of a pathogen from cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) by culture or PCR. However, treatment is routinely commenced based on CSF ...

svp.aphp.fr Background Clinical decision rules (CDRs) could be helpful to safely distinguish between bacterial and aseptic meningitis (AM). Objective To compare the performance ... as were results of ...

We report a case of meningitis caused by VZV in an immunocompetent man in his 20s ... Glucose concentration: 28 mg/dL (45–80). CSF/serum glucose ratio: 0.18 (0.5–0.8). Gram staining of centrifuged CSF ...

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As culturing methods are time-consuming, a more rapid detection technique is required. This study investigated the sensitivity, specificity, and detection limit of Gram staining of milk precipitates ...

Meningitis can be contagious, and people with weak immune systems are especially vulnerable. Some types of meningitis are not contagious (spread from person to person). Meningitis is an inflammation ...