meningitis/vomiting

In July 2007, a cluster of meningitis cases caused by an echovirus 4 strain was detected in 1 indigenous community in the Top End of the Northern Territory of Australia. Illness was characterized by fever, vomiting, and headache. Over the next 4 months, additional cases of meningitis and the fever

BACKGROUND The bacterial meningitis in children remains a worrisome affection both by its frequency and by its gravity. OBJECTIVE describe the epidemiological, clinical and evolutionary data of bacterial meningitis in children aged between 3 months and 15 years. METHODS we conducted a retrospective

A retrospective review of charts for 650 children who had lumbar puncture for suspected meningitis was undertaken to determine the characteristics of patients with and without meningitis, identify other conditions suggesting meningitis, and evaluate the predictive value of signs and symptoms of

A 38-year-old hemophiliac, who had been infected with HIV by the administration of blood products and had been diagnosed as AIDS by the onset of Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia, was admitted to our hospital with the complaints of headache and vomiting. After he was diagnosed as cryptococcal

A normal component of the flora of the oropharynx, Neisseria sicca was first isolated in 1906 and has since been reported as a rare cause of various human infections including endocarditis, pneumonia, sinusitis, sepsis, and urethritis. We report the case of a 44-year-old African-American female with

A 55-year-old male diabetic admitted with deafness, nystagmus, headache and vomiting was found to have meningitis due to Pasteurella ureae and responded to treatment with ampicillin. The P. ureae was unusual in showing X dependency. The family's dogs had had ear infections but no P. ureae were

BACKGROUND Neurologic complaints are common in adults infected with the human immunodeficiency virus, but little is known about which clinical features are associated with secondary causes of meningitis. METHODS A retrospective cross-sectional study of adults infected with the human immunodeficiency

We present a case of meningitis caused by Cryptococcus neoformans var. grubii in a 46-year old non-HIV-infected patient with multiple sclerosis, treated with dimethyl fumarate monotherapy. We identified no other risk factors for developing cryptococcal meningitis.

This report describes a 38-year-old man with osteogenesis imperfecta who died of a ruptured cerebral artery aneurysm and bacterial meningitis. He had multiple long bone fractures in the past, and approximately 4 months before death, he had surgery to relieve symptoms of basilar impression. The

A hundred clinical records of children between the ages of 6 and 18 months were examined. These previously healthy children, were hospitalized after having their first febrile seizure. Lumbar puncture were performed on 42 of them, showing the existence of meningitis in 4 cases, 2 of which were

Meningitis following lumbar puncture and spinal anaesthesia is a rare but serious complication. A 19-year-old woman was administered spinal anaesthesia at another centre prior to a Caesarean section. The following day she experienced headaches. On the fourth day, she started vomiting and having

Despite its common association with viral illnesses, intussusception has only rarely been found in the presence of bacterial infections. Two infants are described, both of whom were admitted to hospital with bilious vomiting, drowsiness, and dehydration. Both infants required urgent intravenous

Two epidemics of ECHO virus type 30 meningitis were compared with the special emphasis on the course of the disease and results of the laboratory investigations. The first epidemic occurred in 1995 and the second one in 1996. Between 20 August and 20 October 1995, thirty six children, and between 11