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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...

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...

Estudio clínico y epidemiológico de la meningitis viral en el HEODRA 1986

Se realizó un estudio de tipo descriptivo, en el Hospital "Oscar Danilo Rosales Argüello, durante el período de junio a septiembre de 1986, a 80 expedientes de pacientes con diagnóstico de egreso de Meningitis Viral del Servicio de Infectología. En el estudio se pudo determinar que la mayoría de lo...