Results: 26

Diagnostic value of heparin-binding protein in the cerebrospinal fluid for purulent meningitis in children

Braz. j. med. biol. res; 54 (11), 2021
This study aimed to investigate the diagnostic value of heparin-binding protein (HBP) in the cerebrospinal fluid of children with purulent meningitis (PM). This study included 118 children with PM diagnosed at our hospital from January 2018 to January 2020, 110 children with viral meningitis (VM) and 80 ...

Meningitis linfocítica recurrente por virus herpes simple tipo 2
Recurrent lymphocytic meningitis by herpes simplex virus type 2

Medicina (B.Aires); 79 (6), 2019
La meningitis linfocítica recurrente o meningitis de Mollaret es una entidad asociada a un gran número de etiologías infecciosas, autoinmunes, toxicológicas y neoplásicas. En la actualidad el virus herpes simple tipo 2 (HSV-2) es el agente más frecuentemente aislado. Afecta frecuentemente a mujeres...

Cerebrospinal fluid lactate: a differential biomarker for bacterial and viral meningitis in children

J. pediatr. (Rio J.); 94 (1), 2018
Abstract Objective: To assess the performance of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) lactate as a biomarker to differentiate bacterial meningitis from viral meningitis in children, and to define an optimal CSF lactate concentration that can be called significant for the differentiation. Methods: Children with cl...

Erythema dyschromicum perstans in a child following an enteroviral meningitis

An. bras. dermatol; 92 (1), 2017
ABSTRACT A healthy 6-year-old boy presented with an erythematous macular exanthema, meningeal signs and fever, initially diagnosed with probable bacterial meningitis and treated with antibiotic and anti-inflammatory drugs. Enteroviral meningitis was confirmed, but the skin lesions continued to evolve and...

Meningitis en el Hospital Nacional: VI muestra nacional de epidemiología

Rev. Nac. (Itauguá); 9 (1), 2017
Introducción: las meningitis constituyen un importante problema de Salud Pública, que afectan de manera especial a los niños menores de 5 años. La etiología más frecuente es viral. Desde la introducción de la vacuna conjugada contra H. influenzae tipo b, S. pneumoniae y N. meningitidis los virus ...

Red blood cells in cerebrospinal fluid as possible inhibitory factor for enterovirus RT-PCR

Arq. neuropsiquiatr; 74 (10), 2016
ABSTRACT The presence of hemoglobin in samples are considered an important inhibitory factor for polymerase chain reaction (PCR). The aim of this study was to examine the influence of red blood cells (RBC)s in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) as an inhibitory factor to reverse transcription polymerase chain rea...

Parechovirus como agente etiológico de meningitis y/o sepsis viral en lactantes

Rev. chil. infectol; 33 (4), 2016
Introduction: Human parechovirus (HPeV) belongs to the Picornaviridae family and has been described in viral meningoencephalitis and sepsis like illness in infants. Until now, 16 genotypes have been recognized, the most common are HPEV 1, 2 and 3; type 3 is most severe. Aims: To estimate the frequency of...

Oxidação de melatonina e formação de N¹-acetil-N²-formil-5-metoxiquinuramina: possíveis efeitos biológicos

Em trabalho anterior verificamos que neutrófilos oxidam o hormônio melatonina a N¹-acetil-N²-formil-5-metoxiquinuramina (AFMK), numa reação catalisada por mieloperoxidase e dependente de ânion superóxido. Neste trabalho acompanhamos a cinética de formação de AFMK e de seu produto de deformila...